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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>2021-09-29 16:18:03 -0500
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>2021-11-15 13:45:12 -0600
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Makefile: Enable -Wcast-function-type
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. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/20 Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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@@ -953,6 +953,11 @@ 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)
+
# disable stringop warnings in gcc 8+
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, stringop-truncation)