linux: disable attribute alias with gcc >= 8.1

gcc-8 started warning about function aliases that have a non-matching
prototype. This seems rather useful in general, but it causes tons of
warnings in the Linux kernel, where we rely on abusing those aliases
for system call entry points, in order to sanitze the arguments passed
from user space in registers.

See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435

Disable the attribute-alias warning introduced by gcc-8 by adding
-Wno-attribute-alias to KCFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
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Romain Naour 2018-06-02 16:34:07 +02:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
parent e40cdee9cc
commit 9a50447b5d

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@ -121,6 +121,16 @@ LINUX_MAKE_ENV += \
KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="$(shell LC_ALL=C date -d @$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH))"
endif
# gcc-8 started warning about function aliases that have a
# non-matching prototype. This seems rather useful in general, but it
# causes tons of warnings in the Linux kernel, where we rely on
# abusing those aliases for system call entry points, in order to
# sanitize the arguments passed from user space in registers.
# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435
ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8),y)
LINUX_MAKE_ENV += KCFLAGS=-Wno-attribute-alias
endif
# Get the real Linux version, which tells us where kernel modules are
# going to be installed in the target filesystem.
LINUX_VERSION_PROBED = `$(MAKE) $(LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS) -C $(LINUX_DIR) --no-print-directory -s kernelrelease 2>/dev/null`