From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> stable inclusion from stable-v4.19.285 commit 85d0254e7ec88b9cf6c853d9f6ea9e3af64d7f81 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I7J5UF CVE: NA -------------------------------- commit 63174f61dfaef58dc0e813eaf6602636794f8942 upstream. Clang warns: ../kernel/extable.c:37:52: warning: array comparison always evaluates to a constant [-Wtautological-compare] if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table > __start___ex_table) { ^ 1 warning generated. 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). Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/892 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200219202036.45702-1-natechancellor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com> --- kernel/extable.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index 6a5b61ebc66c..b3ca75d6bf92 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ u32 __initdata __visible main_extable_sort_needed = 1; /* Sort the kernel's built-in exception table */ void __init sort_main_extable(void) { - if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table > __start___ex_table) { + if (main_extable_sort_needed && + &__stop___ex_table > &__start___ex_table) { pr_notice("Sorting __ex_table...\n"); sort_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table); } -- 2.25.1