linux-stable.git/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn, branch linux-5.19.y

Makefile.extrawarn: Move -Wcast-function-type-strict to W=1

2022-10-12T07:51:23+00:00

commit 2120635108b35ecad9c59c8b44f6cbdf4f98214e upstream.

We enable -Wcast-function-type globally in the kernel to warn about
mismatching types in function pointer casts. Compilers currently
warn only about ABI incompability with this flag, but Clang 16 will
enable a stricter version of the check by default that checks for an
exact type match. This will be very noisy in the kernel, so disable
-Wcast-function-type-strict without W=1 until the new warnings have
been addressed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134831
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1724
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220930203310.4010564-1-samitolvanen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kbuild: support W=e to make build abort in case of warning

2022-05-07T18:16:59+00:00

When developing new code/feature, CONFIG_WERROR is most
often turned off, especially for people using make W=12 to
get more warnings.

In such case, turning on -Werror temporarily would require
switching on CONFIG_WERROR in the configuration, building,
then switching off CONFIG_WERROR.

For this use case, this patch introduces a new 'e' modifier
to W= as a short hand for KCFLAGS+=-Werror" so that -Werror
got added to the kernel (built-in) and modules' CFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Kbuild: add -Wno-shift-negative-value where -Wextra is used

2022-03-13T08:30:31+00:00

As a preparation for moving to -std=gnu11, turn off the
-Wshift-negative-value option. This warning is enabled by gcc when
building with -Wextra for c99 or higher, but not for c89. Since
the kernel already relies on well-defined overflow behavior,
the warning is not helpful and can simply be disabled in
all locations that use -Wextra.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Jani Nikula 
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek  # LLVM/Clang v13.0.0 (x86-64)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Makefile.extrawarn: Move -Wunaligned-access to W=1

2022-02-08T04:20:11+00:00

-Wunaligned-access is a new warning in clang that is default enabled for
arm and arm64 under certain circumstances within the clang frontend (see
LLVM commit below). On v5.17-rc2, an ARCH=arm allmodconfig build shows
1284 total/70 unique instances of this warning (most of the instances
are in header files), which is quite noisy.

To keep a normal build green through CONFIG_WERROR, only show this
warning with W=1, which will allow automated build systems to catch new
instances of the warning so that the total number can be driven down to
zero eventually since catching unaligned accesses at compile time would
be generally useful.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/35737df4dcd28534bd3090157c224c19b501278a
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1569
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1576
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Makefile.extrawarn: remove -Wnested-externs warning

2020-12-08T14:30:05+00:00

The -Wnested-externs warning has become useless with gcc, since
this warns every time that BUILD_BUG_ON() or similar macros
are used.

With clang, the warning option does nothing to start with, so
just remove it entirely.

Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Makefile.extrawarn: move -Wcast-align to W=3

2020-11-24T18:36:10+00:00

This warning behaves differently depending on the architecture
and compiler. Using x86 gcc, we get no output at all because
gcc knows the architecture can handle unaligned accesses.

Using x86 clang, or gcc on an architecture that needs to
manually deal with unaligned accesses, the build log is
completely flooded with these warnings, as they are commonly
invoked by inline functions of networking headers, e.g.

include/linux/skbuff.h:1426:26: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type [-Wcast-align]

The compiler is correct to point this out, as we are dealing
with undefined behavior that does cause problems in practice,
but there is also no good way to rewrite the code in commonly
included headers to a safer method.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Makefile.extrawarn: Move sign-compare from W=2 to W=3

2020-08-17T16:52:08+00:00

This -Wsign-compare compiler warning can be very noisy
and most of the suggested conversions are unnecessary.

Make the warning W=3 so it's described under the
"can most likely be ignored" block.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: Move -Wtype-limits to W=2

2020-07-10T01:00:56+00:00

-Wtype-limits is included in -Wextra which is added at W=1. It warns
(among other things) that 'comparison of an unsigned variable `< 0` is
always false. This causes noisy warnings, especially when used in
macros, hence it is more suitable for W=2.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiKCXEWKJ9dWUimGbrVRo_N2RosESUw8E7m9AEtyZcu=w@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn 
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kbuild: Enable -Wtautological-compare

2020-04-08T15:13:45+00:00

Currently, we disable -Wtautological-compare, which in turn disables a
bunch of more specific tautological comparison warnings that are useful
for the kernel such as -Wtautological-bitwise-compare. See clang's
documentation below for the other warnings that are suppressed by
-Wtautological-compare. Now that all of the major/noisy warnings have
been fixed, enable -Wtautological-compare so that more issues can be
caught at build time by various continuous integration setups.

-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare is kept disabled under a
normal build but visible at W=1 because there are places in the kernel
where a constant or variable size can change based on the kernel
configuration. These are not fixed in a clean/concise way and the ones
I have audited so far appear to be harmless. It is not a subgroup but
rather just one warning so we do not lose out on much coverage by
default.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/488
Link: http://releases.llvm.org/10.0.0/tools/clang/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wtautological-compare
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42666
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: Disable -Wpointer-to-enum-cast

2020-03-14T01:31:08+00:00

Clang's -Wpointer-to-int-cast deviates from GCC in that it warns when
casting to enums. The kernel does this in certain places, such as device
tree matches to set the version of the device being used, which allows
the kernel to avoid using a gigantic union.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5.8/source/drivers/ata/ahci_brcm.c#L428
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5.8/source/drivers/ata/ahci_brcm.c#L402
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5.8/source/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h#L264

To avoid a ton of false positive warnings, disable this particular part
of the warning, which has been split off into a separate diagnostic so
that the entire warning does not need to be turned off for clang. It
will be visible under W=1 in case people want to go about fixing these
easily and enabling the warning treewide.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/887
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/2a41b31fcdfcb67ab7038fc2ffb606fd50b83a84
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada