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From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Kbuild: Hide Clang's -Wempty-body behind W=1
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:14:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181016021454.11953-1-natechancellor@gmail.com> (raw)

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@gmail.com>
---
 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


             reply	other threads:[~2018-10-16  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-16  2:14 Nathan Chancellor [this message]
2018-10-17  4:48 ` [PATCH] Kbuild: Hide Clang's -Wempty-body behind W=1 Masahiro Yamada
2018-10-17  5:02   ` Nathan Chancellor

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