compiler_types: mark __compiletime_assert failure as __noreturn
authorMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:23:31 +0000 (15:23 +0200)
committerMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 23:16:58 +0000 (01:16 +0200)
commit7c00621dcaeea206d7489b3e8b50b1864841ae69
tree2f3b4b8cc9390b74f0130fee1366bdf4a0211147
parentd08fd747d0ed682b6c6c280ba454cafcad33563d
compiler_types: mark __compiletime_assert failure as __noreturn

`__compiletime_assert` declares a fake `extern` function
which appears (to the compiler) to be called when the test fails.

Therefore, compilers may emit possibly-uninitialized warnings
in some cases, even if it will be an error anyway (for compilers
supporting the `error` attribute, e.g. GCC and Clang >= 14)
or a link failure (for those that do not, e.g. Clang < 14).

Annotating the fake function as `__noreturn` gives them
the information they need to avoid the warning,
e.g. see https://godbolt.org/z/x1v69jjYY.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/202110100514.3h9CI4s0-lkp@intel.com/
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
include/linux/compiler_types.h