This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled disable new gcc-7.1.1 warnings for now to the 4.12-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-new-gcc-7.1.1-warnings-for-now.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bd664f6b3e376a8ef4990f87d08271cc2d01ba9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:25:47 -0700 Subject: disable new gcc-7.1.1 warnings for now From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit bd664f6b3e376a8ef4990f87d08271cc2d01ba9a upstream. I made the mistake of upgrading my desktop to the new Fedora 26 that comes with gcc-7.1.1. There's nothing wrong per se that I've noticed, but I now have 1500 lines of warnings, mostly from the new format-truncation warning triggering all over the tree. We use 'snprintf()' and friends in a lot of places, and often know that the numbers are fairly small (ie a controller index or similar), but gcc doesn't know that, and sees an 'int', and thinks that it could be some huge number. And then complains when our buffers are not able to fit the name for the ten millionth controller. These warnings aren't necessarily bad per se, and we probably want to look through them subsystem by subsystem, but at least during the merge window they just mean that I can't even see if somebody is introducing any *real* problems when I pull. So warnings disabled for now. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -631,6 +631,9 @@ include arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks,) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning,frame-address,) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-truncation) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-overflow) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, int-in-bool-context) ifdef CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Oz,-Os) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/disable-new-gcc-7.1.1-warnings-for-now.patch