reproduce:
        # apt-get install sparse
        # sparse version: v0.6.4-66-g0196afe1-dirty
        # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/e61b77683cfbdf19f0797ca49005418bf3298340
        git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux
        git fetch --no-tags linux-review Suren-Baghdasaryan/lib-string_helpers-Add-flags-param-to-string_get_size/20240213-054335
        git checkout e61b77683cfbdf19f0797ca49005418bf3298340
        # save the config file
        mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
        make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ -fmax-errors=unlimited -fmax-warnings=unlimited' O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig
        make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ -fmax-errors=unlimited -fmax-warnings=unlimited' O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/libcxgb/