On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 04:45:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Really. The "-Wshadow doesn't work on the kernel" is not some new > issue, because you have to do completely insane things to the source > code to enable it. The first big glitch with -Wshadow was with shadowed global variables. GCC 4.8 fixed that, but it still yells about shadowed functions. What _almost_ works is -Wshadow=local. At first glace, all the warnings look solvable, but then one will eventually discover __wait_event() and associated macros that mix when and how deeply it intentionally shadows variables. :) Another way to try to catch misused shadow variables is -Wunused-but-set-varible, but it, too, has tons of false positives. I tried to capture some of the rationale and research here: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/152 -- Kees Cook
