There are only a few instances of this warning in an arm64 allyesconfig
build but none of them appear useful. I believe the intention of the
warning is to avoid situations like this:
if (condition);
statement;
where the user really intended
if (condition)
statement;
However, these instances have already been caught by GCC's warning about
misleading indentation so the remaining warnings are about loops that
fall into one of three categories:
1. Execute a function unconditionally (avoiding a useless variable to
hold the return value):
drivers/isdn/hisax/hfc_pci.c:131:34: warning: if statement has empty body
[-Wempty-body]
if (Read_hfc(cs, HFCPCI_INT_S1));
^
2. Advancing a value to be used later on in the function like a pointer
or a count:
drivers/atm/eni.c:244:48: warning: for loop has empty body
[-Wempty-body]
for (order = 0; (1 << order) < *size; order++);
^
3. Busy waiting:
drivers/atm/zatm.c:513:7: warning: while loop has empty body
[-Wempty-body]
zwait;
^
None of these uses are problematic or need to be addressed. Clang
suggests moving the semi-colon to the next line to silence these
warnings but that defeats the purpose of the compact nature of these
constructs so just hide the warning behind W=1 so its use can still be
audited but it won't polute a regular build.
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/42
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/66
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index cf6cd0ef6975..8709d9d6faf1 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
# are not supported by all versions of the compiler
# ==========================================================================
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, empty-body)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, packed-not-aligned)
ifeq ("$(origin W)", "command line")
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-not-aligned)
warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-truncation)
warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)
warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, sign-compare)
+warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wempty-body)
warning-2 := -Waggregate-return
warning-2 += -Wcast-align
--
2.19.1
