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Linus Torvalds a79be02bba Fix mis-uses of 'cc-option' for warning disablement
This was triggered by one of my mis-uses causing odd build warnings on
sparc in linux-next, but while figuring out why the "obviously correct"
use of cc-option caused such odd breakage, I found eight other cases of
the same thing in the tree.

The root cause is that 'cc-option' doesn't work for checking negative
warning options (ie things like '-Wno-stringop-overflow') because gcc
will silently accept options it doesn't recognize, and so 'cc-option'
ends up thinking they are perfectly fine.

And it all works, until you have a situation where _another_ warning is
emitted.  At that point the compiler will go "Hmm, maybe the user
intended to disable this warning but used that wrong option that I
didn't recognize", and generate a warning for the unrecognized negative
option.

Which explains why we have several cases of this in the tree: the
'cc-option' test really doesn't work for this situation, but most of the
time it simply doesn't matter that ity doesn't work.

The reason my recently added case caused problems on sparc was pointed
out by Thomas Weißschuh: the sparc build had a previous explicit warning
that then triggered the new one.

I think the best fix for this would be to make 'cc-option' a bit smarter
about this sitation, possibly by adding an intentional warning to the
test case that then triggers the unrecognized option warning reliably.

But the short-term fix is to replace 'cc-option' with an existing helper
designed for this exact case: 'cc-disable-warning', which picks the
negative warning but uses the positive form for testing the compiler
support.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250422204718.0b4e3f81@canb.auug.org.au/
Explained-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2025-04-23 10:08:29 -07:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# ==========================================================================
# make W=... settings
#
# There are four warning groups enabled by W=1, W=2, W=3, and W=e
# They are independent, and can be combined like W=12 or W=123e.
# ==========================================================================
# Default set of warnings, always enabled
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wall
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wundef
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Werror=implicit-int
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Werror=return-type
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Werror=strict-prototypes
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-security
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-trigraphs
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, frame-address)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-declarations
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-prototypes
ifneq ($(CONFIG_FRAME_WARN),0)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wframe-larger-than=$(CONFIG_FRAME_WARN)
endif
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS-$(CONFIG_WERROR) += -Werror
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS-y)
KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_NO_ARRAY_BOUNDS) += -Wno-array-bounds
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
# The kernel builds with '-std=gnu11' so use of GNU extensions is acceptable.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu
# Clang checks for overflow/truncation with '%p', while GCC does not:
# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111219
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-overflow-non-kprintf)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-truncation-non-kprintf)
else
# gcc inanely warns about local variables called 'main'
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-main
endif
# These result in bogus false positives
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, dangling-pointer)
# Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) should not be used anywhere in the kernel
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wvla
# disable pointer signed / unsigned warnings in gcc 4.0
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
# In order to make sure new function cast mismatches are not introduced
# in the kernel (to avoid tripping CFI checking), the kernel should be
# globally built with -Wcast-function-type.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wcast-function-type)
# The allocators already balk at large sizes, so silence the compiler
# warnings for bounds checks involving those possible values. While
# -Wno-alloc-size-larger-than would normally be used here, earlier versions
# of gcc (<9.1) weirdly don't handle the option correctly when _other_
# warnings are produced (?!). Using -Walloc-size-larger-than=SIZE_MAX
# doesn't work (as it is documented to), silently resolving to "0" prior to
# version 9.1 (and producing an error more recently). Numeric values larger
# than PTRDIFF_MAX also don't work prior to version 9.1, which are silently
# ignored, continuing to default to PTRDIFF_MAX. So, left with no other
# choice, we must perform a versioned check to disable this warning.
# https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210824115859.187f272f@canb.auug.org.au
KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(call gcc-min-version, 90100) += -Wno-alloc-size-larger-than
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_CFLAGS-y) $(CONFIG_CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH)
# Prohibit date/time macros, which would make the build non-deterministic
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Werror=date-time
# enforce correct pointer usage
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types)
# Require designated initializers for all marked structures
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=designated-init)
# Warn if there is an enum types mismatch
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wenum-conversion)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wextra
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wunused
#
# W=1 - warnings which may be relevant and do not occur too often
#
ifneq ($(findstring 1, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-format-attribute
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-include-dirs
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -Wundef
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DKBUILD_EXTRA_WARN1
else
# Some diagnostics enabled by default are noisy.
# Suppress them by using -Wno... except for W=1.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, packed-not-aligned)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-overflow)
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-truncation)
endif
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, stringop-truncation)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-override-init # alias for -Wno-initializer-overrides in clang
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
# Clang before clang-16 would warn on default argument promotions.
ifneq ($(call clang-min-version, 160000),y)
# Disable -Wformat
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
# Then re-enable flags that were part of the -Wformat group that aren't
# problematic.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-invalid-specifier
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-zero-length -Wnonnull
# Requires clang-12+.
ifeq ($(call clang-min-version, 120000),y)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-insufficient-args
endif
endif
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, pointer-to-enum-cast)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unaligned-access)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-enum-compare-conditional
endif
endif
#
# W=2 - warnings which occur quite often but may still be relevant
#
ifneq ($(findstring 2, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wdisabled-optimization
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wshadow
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wlogical-op)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-macros)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DKBUILD_EXTRA_WARN2
else
# The following turn off the warnings enabled by -Wextra
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-type-limits
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-shift-negative-value
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-enum-enum-conversion
endif
ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
endif
endif
#
# W=3 - more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
#
ifneq ($(findstring 3, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wbad-function-cast
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wcast-align
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wcast-qual
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wconversion
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpacked
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpadded
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpointer-arith
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wredundant-decls
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wsign-compare
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wswitch-default
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DKBUILD_EXTRA_WARN3
else
# The following turn off the warnings enabled by -Wextra
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-parameter
endif
#
# W=e - error out on warnings
#
ifneq ($(findstring e, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Werror
endif