Re: [PATCH v2] mm: kmemleak: Use address-of operator on section symbols

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 06:05:40 EST


On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:15:51PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Clang warns:
>
> These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are
> just addresses. Using the address of operator silences the warning and
> does not change the resulting assembly with either clang/ld.lld or
> gcc/ld (tested with diff + objdump -Dr).
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/895
> Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>