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kernel/extable.c: use address-of operator on section symbols

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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/892
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Nathan Chancellor 5 years ago
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      kernel/extable.c

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kernel/extable.c

@@ -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);
 	}