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Commit 1d869337 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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gcc-12: disable '-Wdangling-pointer' warning for now

commit f7d63b50 upstream.

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While the concept of checking for dangling pointers to local variables
at function exit is really interesting, the gcc-12 implementation is not
compatible with reality, and results in false positives.

For example, gcc sees us putting things on a local list head allocated
on the stack, which involves exactly those kinds of pointers to the
local stack entry:

  In function ‘__list_add’,
      inlined from ‘list_add_tail’ at include/linux/list.h:102:2,
      inlined from ‘rebuild_snap_realms’ at fs/ceph/snap.c:434:2:
  include/linux/list.h:74:19: warning: storing the address of local variable ‘realm_queue’ in ‘*&realm_27(D)->rebuild_item.prev’ [-Wdangling-pointer=]
     74 |         new->prev = prev;
        |         ~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~

But then gcc - understandably - doesn't really understand the big
picture how the doubly linked list works, so doesn't see how we then end
up emptying said list head in a loop and the pointer we added has been
removed.

Gcc also complains about us (intentionally) using this as a way to store
a kind of fake stack trace, eg

  drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c:40:38: warning: storing the address of local variable ‘current_sp’ in ‘acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer’ [-Wdangling-pointer=]
     40 |         acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer = &current_sp;
        |         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~

which is entirely reasonable from a compiler standpoint, and we may want
to change those kinds of patterns, but not not.

So this is one of those "it would be lovely if the compiler were to
complain about us leaving dangling pointers to the stack", but not this
way.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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