kbuild: Properly disable -Wunterminated-string-initialization for clang
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:56:34 +0000 (15:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 May 2025 01:57:56 +0000 (18:57 -0700)
Clang and GCC have different behaviors around disabling warnings
included in -Wall and -Wextra and the order in which flags are
specified, which is exposed by clang's new support for
-Wunterminated-string-initialization.

  $ cat test.c
  const char foo[3] = "FOO";
  const char bar[3] __attribute__((__nonstring__)) = "BAR";

  $ clang -fsyntax-only -Wextra test.c
  test.c:1:21: warning: initializer-string for character array is too long, array size is 3 but initializer has size 4 (including the null terminating character); did you mean to use the 'nonstring' attribute? [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
      1 | const char foo[3] = "FOO";
        |                     ^~~~~
  $ clang -fsyntax-only -Wextra -Wno-unterminated-string-initialization test.c
  $ clang -fsyntax-only -Wno-unterminated-string-initialization -Wextra test.c
  test.c:1:21: warning: initializer-string for character array is too long, array size is 3 but initializer has size 4 (including the null terminating character); did you mean to use the 'nonstring' attribute? [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
      1 | const char foo[3] = "FOO";
        |                     ^~~~~

  $ gcc -fsyntax-only -Wextra test.c
  test.c:1:21: warning: initializer-string for array of ‘char’ truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks ‘nonstring’ attribute (4 chars into 3 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
      1 | const char foo[3] = "FOO";
        |                     ^~~~~
  $ gcc -fsyntax-only -Wextra -Wno-unterminated-string-initialization test.c
  $ gcc -fsyntax-only -Wno-unterminated-string-initialization -Wextra test.c

Move -Wextra up right below -Wall in Makefile.extrawarn to ensure these
flags are at the beginning of the warning options list. Move the couple
of warning options that have been added to the main Makefile since
commit e88ca24319e4 ("kbuild: consolidate warning flags in
scripts/Makefile.extrawarn") to scripts/Makefile.extrawarn after -Wall /
-Wextra to ensure they get properly disabled for all compilers.

Fixes: 9d7a0577c9db ("gcc-15: disable '-Wunterminated-string-initialization' entirely for now")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/10359
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Makefile
scripts/Makefile.extrawarn

index 5aa9ee5..94be5df 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1052,13 +1052,6 @@ NOSTDINC_FLAGS += -nostdinc
 # perform bounds checking.
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fstrict-flex-arrays=3)
 
-#Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC 11, globally.
-KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW) += $(call cc-disable-warning, stringop-overflow)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW) += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-overflow)
-
-#Currently, disable -Wunterminated-string-initialization as broken
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unterminated-string-initialization)
-
 # disable invalid "can't wrap" optimizations for signed / pointers
 KBUILD_CFLAGS  += -fno-strict-overflow
 
index 2d6e595..d88acdf 100644 (file)
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 # Default set of warnings, always enabled
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wall
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wextra
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wundef
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Werror=implicit-int
@@ -56,6 +57,13 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
 # globally built with -Wcast-function-type.
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wcast-function-type)
 
+# Currently, disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC 11, globally.
+KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_NO_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW) += $(call cc-disable-warning, stringop-overflow)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW) += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-overflow)
+
+# Currently, disable -Wunterminated-string-initialization as broken
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unterminated-string-initialization)
+
 # 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
@@ -82,7 +90,6 @@ 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
 
 #