[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "IB/core, cma: Make __attribute_const__ declarations sparse-friendly" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    IB/core, cma: Make __attribute_const__ declarations sparse-friendly

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 5e86177ce7238e8eba48f1cd6f66a004adea0f33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at sandisk.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 10:01:52 -0700
Subject: IB/core, cma: Make __attribute_const__ declarations sparse-friendly

commit db7489e07669073970358b6cacf6a9dd8dc9275e upstream.

Move the __attribute_const__ declarations such that sparse understands
that these apply to the function itself and not to the return type.
This avoids that sparse reports error messages like the following:

drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c:73:12: error: symbol 'ib_event_msg' redeclared with different type (originally declared at include/rdma/ib_verbs.h:470) - different modifiers

Fixes: 2b1b5b601230 ("IB/core, cma: Nice log-friendly string helpers")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche at sandisk.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig at mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c   | 2 +-
 drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c | 4 ++--
 include/rdma/ib_verbs.h         | 4 ++--
 include/rdma/rdma_cm.h          | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
index 143ded2..a7c1788 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static const char * const cma_events[] = {
 	[RDMA_CM_EVENT_TIMEWAIT_EXIT]	 = "timewait exit",
 };

-const char *rdma_event_msg(enum rdma_cm_event_type event)
+const char *__attribute_const__ rdma_event_msg(enum rdma_cm_event_type event)
 {
 	size_t index = event;

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
index bac3fb4..a162f65 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static const char * const ib_events[] = {
 	[IB_EVENT_GID_CHANGE]		= "GID changed",
 };

-const char *ib_event_msg(enum ib_event_type event)
+const char *__attribute_const__ ib_event_msg(enum ib_event_type event)
 {
 	size_t index = event;

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static const char * const wc_statuses[] = {
 	[IB_WC_GENERAL_ERR]		= "general error",
 };

-const char *ib_wc_status_msg(enum ib_wc_status status)
+const char *__attribute_const__ ib_wc_status_msg(enum ib_wc_status status)
 {
 	size_t index = status;

diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
index b0f898e..8ee1a4b 100644
--- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
+++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ enum ib_event_type {
 	IB_EVENT_GID_CHANGE,
 };

-__attribute_const__ const char *ib_event_msg(enum ib_event_type event);
+const char *__attribute_const__ ib_event_msg(enum ib_event_type event);

 struct ib_event {
 	struct ib_device	*device;
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ enum ib_wc_status {
 	IB_WC_GENERAL_ERR
 };

-__attribute_const__ const char *ib_wc_status_msg(enum ib_wc_status status);
+const char *__attribute_const__ ib_wc_status_msg(enum ib_wc_status status);

 enum ib_wc_opcode {
 	IB_WC_SEND,
diff --git a/include/rdma/rdma_cm.h b/include/rdma/rdma_cm.h
index c92522c..31afb5c 100644
--- a/include/rdma/rdma_cm.h
+++ b/include/rdma/rdma_cm.h
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ enum rdma_cm_event_type {
 	RDMA_CM_EVENT_TIMEWAIT_EXIT
 };

-__attribute_const__ const char *rdma_event_msg(enum rdma_cm_event_type event);
+const char *__attribute_const__ rdma_event_msg(enum rdma_cm_event_type event);

 enum rdma_port_space {
 	RDMA_PS_SDP   = 0x0001,
--
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