[PATCH 5.4 069/102] kbuild: Disable -Wpointer-to-enum-cast

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 24 2020 - 09:18:50 EST


From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 82f2bc2fcc0160d6f82dd1ac64518ae0a4dd183f upstream.

Clang's -Wpointer-to-int-cast deviates from GCC in that it warns when
casting to enums. The kernel does this in certain places, such as device
tree matches to set the version of the device being used, which allows
the kernel to avoid using a gigantic union.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5.8/source/drivers/ata/ahci_brcm.c#L428
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5.8/source/drivers/ata/ahci_brcm.c#L402
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5.8/source/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h#L264

To avoid a ton of false positive warnings, disable this particular part
of the warning, which has been split off into a separate diagnostic so
that the entire warning does not need to be turned off for clang. It
will be visible under W=1 in case people want to go about fixing these
easily and enabling the warning treewide.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/887
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/2a41b31fcdfcb67ab7038fc2ffb606fd50b83a84
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-initializer-overri
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, pointer-to-enum-cast)
endif

endif