The kernel is trying to use a unnamed struct to mark a group of fields as being 'const' and get a warning if one of its member is assigned. GCC gives indeed a warning but Sparse and clang don't. So, the type qualifiers of the anonymous struct need to be propagate to the members. An easy, one-liner, solution is to handle this inside find_identifier(), where access to the members are recursively searched inside sub-structures. It's very easy but it feels wrong to do semantics inside this function. Worse, it's only working for members that are effectively accessed, doing a type evaluation on the anonymous struct (or its parent) would, by itself, not handle this. So, the solution chosen here is to handle this during type examination, more precisely, inside examine_struct_union_type(), where things are a bit more complicated (it can't be done when examining the members themselves because only the parent SYM_STRUCT is accessible and the qualifiers are in the SYM_NODE, so it needs to be done when examining the anonymous struct itself) but can be done for all members. Note: It would seem logical to also handle at least all qualifier-like attributes but GCC seems to only bother with the true qualifiers and ignore things like attributes and alignment specifiers. Link: lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj4Kviw8q2Sx9vrrvyn3uWK-zNi4uGRx=5bzde0Cio8uQ@mail.gmail.com Link: lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjdJmL22+zk3_rWAfEJJCf=oDxiJ530qk-WNk_Ji0qhxw@mail.gmail.com Thanks-to: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>