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@@ -1011,6 +1011,21 @@ ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-maybe-uninitialized endif +ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC +# 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 cc-ifversion, -ge, 0901, -Wno-alloc-size-larger-than) +endif + # disable invalid "can't wrap" optimizations for signed / pointers KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-overflow |