Re: Sparse 0.2 warnings from {asm,net}/checksum.h

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 03:23:45PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
 > With sparse 0.2, my previously sparse-clean driver generates the
 > following warnings:
 > 
 > include/asm/checksum.h:182:6: warning: symbol 'sum' shadows an earlier one
 > include/asm/checksum.h:178:28: originally declared here
 > include/net/checksum.h:33:6: warning: symbol 'sum' shadows an earlier one
 > include/net/checksum.h:31:27: originally declared here
 > 
 > Architecture is i386. The lines referred to are in the functions
 > csum_and_copy_to_user() and csum_and_copy_from_user(), but I
 > don't see why sparse would emit such a warning for that code.

It's complaining about the 'sum' declaration in __range_not_ok
used by access_ok(), which shadows the variable declared in
the prototype of the functions you mention.

		Dave

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