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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2024-09-02 03:17:30 -0700
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-09-03 12:01:38 -0700
commit77461c10819103eaee7b33c744174b32a8c78b40 (patch)
treee4d9525e374fb87193b48442c5d7bd0f550cb778 /net/core
parent3b3a2a9c6349e25a025d2330f479bc33a6ccb54a (diff)
net: dqs: Do not use extern for unused dql_group
When CONFIG_DQL is not enabled, dql_group should be treated as a dead declaration. However, its current extern declaration assumes the linker will ignore it, which is generally true across most compiler and architecture combinations. But in certain cases, the linker still attempts to resolve the extern struct, even when the associated code is dead, resulting in a linking error. For instance the following error in loongarch64: >> loongarch64-linux-ld: net-sysfs.c:(.text+0x589c): undefined reference to `dql_group' Modify the declaration of the dead object to be an empty declaration instead of an extern. This change will prevent the linker from attempting to resolve an undefined reference. Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202409012047.eCaOdfQJ-lkp@intel.com/ Fixes: 74293ea1c4db ("net: sysfs: Do not create sysfs for non BQL device") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> # build-tested Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240902101734.3260455-1-leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net-sysfs.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 444f23e74f8e..291fdf4a328b 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ static const struct attribute_group dql_group = {
};
#else
/* Fake declaration, all the code using it should be dead */
-extern const struct attribute_group dql_group;
+static const struct attribute_group dql_group = {};
#endif /* CONFIG_BQL */
#ifdef CONFIG_XPS