Re: [PATCH 17/17] [RFC] Makefile.extrawarn: turn on missing-prototypes again

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Aug 10 2023 - 15:02:55 EST


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 04:19:35PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Over the years we went from > 1000 of warnings to under 100 earlier
> this year, and I sent patches to address all the ones that I saw with
> compile testing randcom configs on arm64, arm and x86 kernels. This is a
> really useful warning, as it catches real bugs when there are mismatched
> prototypes. In particular with kernel control flow integrity enabled,
> those are no longer allowed.
>
> Move the options out of the W=1 section to have them enabled by
> default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I'm sure there are still regressions with CONFIG_WERROR when this gets
> turned on, but it's getting very close, so it might be best to already
> enable this in linux-next but wait one extra merge window to have it in
> mainline while the last fixes trickle in.
> ---

Thanks for chasing all of these down!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

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Kees Cook