On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 4:43 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ok, this shows a limitation of my allmodconfig testing (and all my > normal builds) - no plugins. So that problem wasn't as obvious as it > should have been. Ok, that was easy to install and get the coverage, and now I see the error. Except I still don't know the gcc plugins well enough to fix it at the plugin level. And the gcc docs only talk about TREE_STATIC() for functions, not for variables. Apparently variables should use DECL_THIS_EXTERN or DECL_THIS_STATIC according to the docs I find, but .. Removing the __latent_entropy marker obviously fixes things. Linus