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kernel/extable.c: use address-of operator on section symbols
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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>
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Nathan Chancellor authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 7, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ 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);
}
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