[PATCH] LSM: Avoid warnings about potentially unused hook variables

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Wed Oct 13 17:28:48 UTC 2021


Building with W=1 shows many unused const variable warnings. These can
be silenced, as we're well aware of their being potentially unused:

./include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h:36:18: error: 'ptrace_access_check_default' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]
   36 | LSM_HOOK(int, 0, ptrace_access_check, struct task_struct *child,
      |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
security/security.c:706:32: note: in definition of macro 'LSM_RET_DEFAULT'
  706 | #define LSM_RET_DEFAULT(NAME) (NAME##_default)
      |                                ^~~~
security/security.c:711:9: note: in expansion of macro 'DECLARE_LSM_RET_DEFAULT_int'
  711 |         DECLARE_LSM_RET_DEFAULT_##RET(DEFAULT, NAME)
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h:36:1: note: in expansion of macro 'LSM_HOOK'
   36 | LSM_HOOK(int, 0, ptrace_access_check, struct task_struct *child,
      | ^~~~~~~~

Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh at chromium.org>
Cc: linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202110131608.zms53FPR-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: 98e828a0650f ("security: Refactor declaration of LSM hooks")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 security/security.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 9ffa9e9c5c55..462f14354c2c 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static int lsm_superblock_alloc(struct super_block *sb)
 #define LSM_RET_DEFAULT(NAME) (NAME##_default)
 #define DECLARE_LSM_RET_DEFAULT_void(DEFAULT, NAME)
 #define DECLARE_LSM_RET_DEFAULT_int(DEFAULT, NAME) \
-	static const int LSM_RET_DEFAULT(NAME) = (DEFAULT);
+	static const int __maybe_unused LSM_RET_DEFAULT(NAME) = (DEFAULT);
 #define LSM_HOOK(RET, DEFAULT, NAME, ...) \
 	DECLARE_LSM_RET_DEFAULT_##RET(DEFAULT, NAME)
 
-- 
2.30.2



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