Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:32:02 +0100 | From | Luc Van Oostenryck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] kernel.h: disable type-checks in container_of() for Sparse |
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:14:20PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > When I tried to enable BUILD_BUG_ON for Sparse, the kbuild test robot > reported lots of "unknown expression" warnings from container_of(), > which seemed false positive. > > I addressed this in [1], but fixing Sparse is the right thing to do. > > The issue was fixed by Sparse commit 0eb8175d3e9c ("fix expansion of > function designator"), but it will take time until the fixed version > of Sparse is widely available. > > Disable the container_of() type checks for Sparse for now.
I would prefer that developers upgrade their version of sparse but ...
Reviewed-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
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