On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 10:14:07AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > 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. :) Well, that's just disgusting. Macros fundamentally shouldn't be referring to things that aren't in their arguments. The first step to cleaning this up is ... I'll take a look at the rest of cleaning this up soon.