Nothing shows up for me on x86_64, allmodconfig, linux-next from 10 of June. My sparse has been compiled from sources. $ make fs/locks.o C=2 CHECK="/home/vosipov/bin/sparse" CHK include/config/kernel.release CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHECK scripts/mod/empty.c CHECK fs/locks.c $ sparse —version v0.5.0 $ which sparse /home/vosipov/bin/sparse Regards, Vitaly On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:11:46 +0300 > Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 07:06:32AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: >> > $ rpm -q sparse >> > sparse-0.5.0-1.fc20.x86_64 >> > >> > I see it all over the tree, but an easy example is fs/locks.c: >> > >> > $ make fs/locks.o C=1 >> > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. >> > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `relocs'. >> > CHK include/config/kernel.release >> > CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h >> > CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h >> > CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh >> > CHECK fs/locks.c >> > include/linux/err.h:35:16: warning: dereference of noderef expression >> > include/linux/err.h:30:23: warning: dereference of noderef expression >> > include/linux/err.h:35:16: warning: dereference of noderef expression >> > include/linux/err.h:30:23: warning: dereference of noderef expression >> > CC fs/locks.o >> > >> > It has two IS_ERR calls and two PTR_ERR calls, and each generates the >> > warning. >> > >> >> I downloaded the Fedora SRPM and built the binary but I still wasn't >> able to reproduce the bug. >> >> dcarpenter@speke:~/progs/kernel/devel$ /tmp/sparse/sparse-0.5.0/sparse --version >> 0.5.0 >> dcarpenter@speke:~/progs/kernel/devel$ make C=2 CHECK=/tmp/sparse/sparse-0.5.0/sparse fs/locks.o >> CHK include/config/kernel.release >> CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h >> CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h >> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh >> <stdin>:1226:2: warning: #warning syscall finit_module not implemented [-Wcpp] >> <stdin>:1229:2: warning: #warning syscall sched_setattr not implemented [-Wcpp] >> <stdin>:1232:2: warning: #warning syscall sched_getattr not implemented [-Wcpp] >> <stdin>:1235:2: warning: #warning syscall renameat2 not implemented [-Wcpp] >> CHECK scripts/mod/empty.c >> CHECK fs/locks.c >> dcarpenter@speke:~/progs/kernel/devel$ >> >> I'm on today's linux-next. I can't think of a kernel configuration >> issue which would cause this... >> >> regards, >> dan carpenter > > Could it be arch-specific then? What arch are you using? I'm on x86_64. > I know that quite a few other people have mentioned seeing these > warnings as well, so I'm pretty sure it's not just me. > > -- > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html