absolute_pointer() disassociates a pointer from its originating symbol
type and context. Use it to prevent compiler warnings/errors such as
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c: In function 'i82596_probe':
./arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h:72:25: error:
'__builtin_memcpy' reading 6 bytes from a region of size 0
[-Werror=stringop-overread]
Such warnings may be reported by gcc 11.x for string and memory operations
on fixed addresses.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index b67261a1e3e9..3d5af56337bd 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
(typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); })
#endif
+#define absolute_pointer(val) RELOC_HIDE((void *)(val), 0)
+
#ifndef OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR
/* Make the optimizer believe the variable can be manipulated arbitrarily. */
#define OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(var) \
--
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