Starting with gcc-8.1, we get a warning about all system call definitions,
which use an alias between functions with incompatible prototypes, e.g.:
In file included from ../mm/process_vm_access.c:19:
../include/linux/syscalls.h:211:18: warning: 'sys_process_vm_readv' alias between functions of incompatible types 'long int(pid_t, const struct iovec *, long unsigned int, const struct iovec *, long unsigned int, long unsigned int)' {aka 'long int(int, const struct iovec *, long unsigned int, const struct iovec *, long unsigned int, long unsigned int)'} and 'long int(long int, long int, long int, long int, long int, long int)' [-Wattribute-alias]
asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__)) \
^~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:207:2: note: in expansion of macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
__SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:201:36: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
#define SYSCALL_DEFINE6(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(6, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../mm/process_vm_access.c:300:1: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE6'
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(process_vm_readv, pid_t, pid, const struct iovec __user *, lvec,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:215:18: note: aliased declaration here
asmlinkage long SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__)) \
^~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:207:2: note: in expansion of macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
__SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../include/linux/syscalls.h:201:36: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
#define SYSCALL_DEFINE6(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(6, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../mm/process_vm_access.c:300:1: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE6'
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(process_vm_readv, pid_t, pid, const struct iovec __user *, lvec,
This is really noisy and does not indicate a real problem. In the latest
mainline kernel, this was addressed by commit bee20031772a ("disable
-Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()"), which seems too invasive
to backport.
This takes a much simpler approach and just disables the warning across the
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a44d6b2adb76..91f9d2d56eac 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -642,6 +642,7 @@ 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)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, attribute-alias)
ifdef CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Oz,-Os)
--
2.18.0
