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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-06-25 15:59:34 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-10-11 08:17:50 -0700
commit0bb95f80a38f82884693194ea720e9cca5e12ada (patch)
tree788e8ef11abfc6b7dc7cd0ba6b7f23fa2f6b95e1
parent81b45683487a51b0f4d3b29d37f20d6d078544e4 (diff)
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Makefile: Globally enable VLA warning
Now that Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) have been entirely removed[1] from the kernel, enable the VLA warning globally. The only exceptions to this are the KASan an UBSan tests which are explicitly checking that VLAs trigger their respective tests. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-rw-r--r--Makefile3
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--lib/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile.extrawarn1
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 19948e556941..f1760e8db573 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -804,6 +804,9 @@ NOSTDINC_FLAGS += -nostdinc -isystem $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include)
# warn about C99 declaration after statement
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
+# Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) should not be used anywhere in the kernel
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wvla)
+
# disable pointer signed / unsigned warnings in gcc 4.0
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, pointer-sign)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
index 5794f102f9b8..1c2857f13ad4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
# Note the danger in using -Wall -Wextra is that when CI updates gcc we
# will most likely get a sudden build breakage... Hopefully we will fix
# new warnings before CI updates!
-subdir-ccflags-y := -Wall -Wextra -Wvla
+subdir-ccflags-y := -Wall -Wextra
subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-parameter)
subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, type-limits)
subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
index ca3f7ebb900d..8e0aca8a2f09 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile
+++ b/lib/Makefile
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_HASH) += test_hash.o test_siphash.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_IDA) += test_ida.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_KASAN) += test_kasan.o
CFLAGS_test_kasan.o += -fno-builtin
+CFLAGS_test_kasan.o += $(call cc-disable-warning, vla)
obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_UBSAN) += test_ubsan.o
+CFLAGS_test_ubsan.o += $(call cc-disable-warning, vla)
UBSAN_SANITIZE_test_ubsan.o := y
obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_KSTRTOX) += test-kstrtox.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_LIST_SORT) += test_list_sort.o
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index 8d5357053f86..24b2fb1d1297 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ warning-3 += -Wpointer-arith
warning-3 += -Wredundant-decls
warning-3 += -Wswitch-default
warning-3 += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat)
-warning-3 += $(call cc-option, -Wvla)
warning := $(warning-$(findstring 1, $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)))
warning += $(warning-$(findstring 2, $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)))