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* [PATCH] kbuild: Enable -Wsometimes-uninitialized
@ 2019-04-30  1:00 Nathan Chancellor
  2019-04-30  7:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Nathan Chancellor @ 2019-04-30  1:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Masahiro Yamada, Michal Marek
  Cc: linux-kbuild, linux-kernel, clang-built-linux, Nick Desaulniers,
	Arnd Bergmann, Nathan Chancellor

This is Clang's version of GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized. Up to this
point, it has not been used because -Wuninitialized has been disabled,
which also turns off -Wsometimes-uninitialized, meaning that we miss out
on finding some bugs [1]. In my experience, it appears to be more
accurate than GCC and catch some things that GCC can't.

All of these warnings have now been fixed in -next across arm, arm64,
and x86_64 defconfig/allyesconfig so this should be enabled for everyone
to prevent more from easily creeping in.

As of next-20190429:

$ git log --oneline --grep="sometimes-uninitialized" | wc -l
45

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/86649ee4-9794-77a3-502c-f4cd10019c36@lca.pw/

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/381
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
---

Masahiro, I am not sure how you want to handle merging this with regards
to all of the patches floating around in -next but I wanted to send this
out to let everyone know this is ready to be turned on.

Arnd, are there many remaning -Wsometimes-uninitialized warnings in
randconfigs?

 scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index 768306add591..f4332981ea85 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -72,5 +72,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, sign-compare)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-zero-length)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, uninitialized)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wsometimes-uninitialized)
 endif
 endif
-- 
2.21.0


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2019-04-30  9:33   ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-04-30  9:46     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-04-30 20:54       ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-05-01 12:30         ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-05-23  1:50       ` Nathan Chancellor

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