This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Disable the __builtin_return_address() warning globally after all to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: disable-the-__builtin_return_address-warning-globally-after-all.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ef6000b4c6706cbb1787836442b5a74542b1809f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:23:41 -0700 Subject: Disable the __builtin_return_address() warning globally after all From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ef6000b4c6706cbb1787836442b5a74542b1809f upstream. This affectively reverts commit 377ccbb48373 ("Makefile: Mute warning for __builtin_return_address(>0) for tracing only") because it turns out that it really isn't tracing only - it's all over the tree. We already also had the warning disabled separately for mm/usercopy.c (which this commit also removes), and it turns out that we will also want to disable it for get_lock_parent_ip(), that is used for at least TRACE_IRQFLAGS. Which (when enabled) ends up being all over the tree. Steven Rostedt had a patch that tried to limit it to just the config options that actually triggered this, but quite frankly, the extra complexity and abstraction just isn't worth it. We have never actually had a case where the warning is actually useful, so let's just disable it globally and not worry about it. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 1 + kernel/trace/Makefile | 4 ---- mm/Makefile | 3 --- 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ include arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks,) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning,frame-address,) ifdef CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Os --- a/kernel/trace/Makefile +++ b/kernel/trace/Makefile @@ -1,8 +1,4 @@ -# We are fully aware of the dangers of __builtin_return_address() -FRAME_CFLAGS := $(call cc-disable-warning,frame-address) -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(FRAME_CFLAGS) - # Do not instrument the tracer itself: ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER --- a/mm/Makefile +++ b/mm/Makefile @@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT_memcontrol.o := n KCOV_INSTRUMENT_mmzone.o := n KCOV_INSTRUMENT_vmstat.o := n -# Since __builtin_frame_address does work as used, disable the warning. -CFLAGS_usercopy.o += $(call cc-disable-warning, frame-address) - mmu-y := nommu.o mmu-$(CONFIG_MMU) := gup.o highmem.o memory.o mincore.o \ mlock.o mmap.o mprotect.o mremap.o msync.o rmap.o \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/x86-cpu-amd-fix-cpu_llc_id-for-amd-fam17h-systems.patch queue-4.8/disable-the-__builtin_return_address-warning-globally-after-all.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html