linux-kernel - [PATCH] Makefile: Add '-fno-builtin-bcmp' to CLANG

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Date:   Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:52:04 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        James Y Knight <jyknight@...gle.com>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: Add '-fno-builtin-bcmp' to CLANG_FLAGS

After LLVM revision r355672 [1], all known working kernel configurations
fail to link [2]:

ld: init/do_mounts.o: in function `prepare_namespace':
do_mounts.c:(.init.text+0x5ca): undefined reference to `bcmp'
ld: do_mounts.c:(.init.text+0x5e6): undefined reference to `bcmp'
ld: init/initramfs.o: in function `do_header':
initramfs.c:(.init.text+0x6e0): undefined reference to `bcmp'
ld: initramfs.c:(.init.text+0x6f8): undefined reference to `bcmp'
ld: arch/x86/kernel/setup.o: in function `setup_arch':
setup.c:(.init.text+0x21d): undefined reference to `bcmp'

Commit 6edfba1b33c7 ("[PATCH] x86_64: Don't define string functions to
builtin") removed '-ffreestanding' globally and the kernel doesn't
provide a bcmp definition so the linker cannot find a reference to it.

Fix this by explicitly telling LLVM through Clang not to emit bcmp
references. This flag does not need to be behind 'cc-option' because all
working versions of Clang support this flag.

[1]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8e16d73346f8091461319a7dfc4ddd18eedcff13
[2]: https://travis-ci.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/builds/104027249

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/416
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
---
 Makefile | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9ef547fc7ffe..6645a274b6e3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ ifneq ($(GCC_TOOLCHAIN),)
 CLANG_FLAGS	+= --gcc-toolchain=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN)
 endif
 CLANG_FLAGS	+= -no-integrated-as
+CLANG_FLAGS	+= -fno-builtin-bcmp
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(CLANG_FLAGS)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(CLANG_FLAGS)
 export CLANG_FLAGS
-- 
2.21.0