staging: rtl8723bs: Fix build error with Clang when inlining is disabled
authorNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:20:11 +0000 (06:20 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 5 Mar 2019 16:58:49 +0000 (17:58 +0100)
commitbbc300c8c75e69a690f4a2d0c4189529f5ea0c4e
tree8ae76002566b851bf2102dc8eb5e245c498ecabc
parenta99e0377cca48de101d64c6f76704c57c9d96efd
staging: rtl8723bs: Fix build error with Clang when inlining is disabled

[ Upstream commit 97715058b70da1262fd07798c8b2e3e894f759dd ]

When CONFIG_NO_AUTO_INLINE was present in linux-next (which added
'-fno-inline-functions' to KBUILD_CFLAGS), an allyesconfig build with
Clang failed at the modpost stage:

ERROR: "is_broadcast_mac_addr" [drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/r8723bs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "is_zero_mac_addr" [drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/r8723bs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "is_multicast_mac_addr" [drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/r8723bs.ko] undefined!

These functions were marked as extern inline, meaning that if inlining
doesn't happen, the function will be undefined, as it is above.

This happens to work with GCC because the '-fno-inline-functions' option
respects the __inline attribute so all instances of these functions are
inlined as expected and the definition doesn't actually matter. However,
with Clang and '-fno-inline-functions', a function has to be marked with
the __always_inline attribute to be considered for inlining, which none
of these functions are. Clang tries to find the symbol definition
elsewhere as it was told and fails, which trickles down to modpost.

To make sure that this code compiles regardless of compiler and make the
intention of the code clearer, use 'static' to ensure these functions
are always defined, regardless of inlining. Additionally, silence a
checkpatch warning by switching from '__inline' to 'inline'.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/ieee80211.h