[PATCH] sparse: define max kernel symbol length and clean up errors in kernel/kallsyms.c
CHECK kernel/kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c:136:7: warning: bad constant expression kernel/kallsyms.c:136:7: warning: bad constant expression kernel/kallsyms.c:136:7: warning: bad constant expression kernel/kallsyms.c:143:22: warning: bad constant expression kernel/kallsyms.c:143:22: warning: bad constant expression kernel/kallsyms.c:143:22: warning: bad constant expression Now the cause of sparse warnings is that it does not handle runtime array dimensioning (which I take it is a sparse problem), but in this particular case it _might_ make sense to change the runtime allocation to compile time, as the upper size of the array is known, because the code in kernel/kallsyms.c clearly uses 127 (or 128) as "magic constant" for kernel symbol (array) length, and in the other hand in include/linux/module.h there is: #define MODULE_NAME_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long)) The only concern is that the array become quite big (the original comment of it being "pretty small" no longer applies ...). One way to help that would be to use buffer[] also in place of namebuf[], but that would be little tricky as the format string should be before the symbol name ... Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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