Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: add -Wall to KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Mar 25 2020 - 22:06:34 EST


On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:14:32PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Add -Wall to catch more warnings for C++ host programs.
>
> When I submitted the previous version, the 0-day bot reported
> -Wc++11-compat warnings for old GCC:
>
> HOSTCXX -fPIC scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.o
> In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/plugin/include/tm.h:28:0,
> from scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:15,
> from scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c:78:
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/plugin/include/config/elfos.h:102:21: warning: C++11 requires a space between string literal and macro [-Wc++11-compat]
> fprintf ((FILE), "%s"HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_UNSIGNED"\n",\
> ^
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/plugin/include/config/elfos.h:170:24: warning: C++11 requires a space between string literal and macro [-Wc++11-compat]
> fprintf ((FILE), ","HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_UNSIGNED",%u\n", \
> ^
> In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/plugin/include/tm.h:42:0,
> from scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h:15,
> from scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c:78:
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/plugin/include/defaults.h:126:24: warning: C++11 requires a space between string literal and macro [-Wc++11-compat]
> fprintf ((FILE), ","HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_UNSIGNED",%u\n", \
> ^
>
> The source of the warnings is in the plugin headers, so we have no
> control of it. I just suppressed them by adding -Wno-c++11-compat to
> scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
>
> Makefile | 2 +-
> scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 3b57ccab367b..593d8f1bbe90 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ HOSTCXX = g++
> KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS := -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 \
> -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu89 $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) \
> $(HOSTCFLAGS)
> -KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS := -O2 $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCXXFLAGS)
> +KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS := -Wall -O2 $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCXXFLAGS)
> KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS := $(HOST_LFS_LDFLAGS) $(HOSTLDFLAGS)
> KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS := $(HOST_LFS_LIBS) $(HOSTLDLIBS)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
> index f2ee8bd7abc6..efff00959a9c 100644
> --- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
> +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ else
> HOSTLIBS := hostcxxlibs
> HOST_EXTRACXXFLAGS += -I$(GCC_PLUGINS_DIR)/include -I$(src) -std=gnu++98 -fno-rtti
> HOST_EXTRACXXFLAGS += -fno-exceptions -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -ggdb
> - HOST_EXTRACXXFLAGS += -Wno-narrowing -Wno-unused-variable
> + HOST_EXTRACXXFLAGS += -Wno-narrowing -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-c++11-compat
> export HOST_EXTRACXXFLAGS
> endif
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>

--
Kees Cook