linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] arm64: Don't unconditionally add -Wno-psabi to KBUILD

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Message-Id: <20190611171931.99705-1-natechancellor@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:19:32 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Qian Cai <cai@....pw>, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: Don't unconditionally add -Wno-psabi to KBUILD_CFLAGS

This is a GCC only option, which warns about ABI changes within GCC, so
unconditionally adding it breaks Clang with tons of:

warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-psabi' [-Wunknown-warning-option]

and link time failures:

ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: __efistub___stack_chk_guard
>>> referenced by arm-stub.c:73
(/home/nathan/cbl/linux/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c:73)
>>>               arm-stub.stub.o:(__efistub_install_memreserve_table)
in archive ./drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a

These failures come from the lack of -fno-stack-protector, which is
added via cc-option in drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile. When an
unknown flag is added to KBUILD_CFLAGS, clang will noisily warn that it
is ignoring the option like above, unlike gcc, who will just error.

$ echo "int main() { return 0; }" > tmp.c

$ clang -Wno-psabi tmp.c; echo $?
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-psabi' [-Wunknown-warning-option]
1 warning generated.
0

$ gcc -Wsometimes-uninitialized tmp.c; echo $?
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option
‘-Wsometimes-uninitialized’; did you mean ‘-Wmaybe-uninitialized’?
1

For cc-option to work properly with clang and behave like gcc, -Werror
is needed, which was done in commit c3f0d0bc5b01 ("kbuild, LLVMLinux:
Add -Werror to cc-option to support clang").

$ clang -Werror -Wno-psabi tmp.c; echo $?
error: unknown warning option '-Wno-psabi'
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
1

As a consequence of this, when an unknown flag is unconditionally added
to KBUILD_CFLAGS, it will cause cc-option to always fail and those flags
will never get added:

$ clang -Werror -Wno-psabi -fno-stack-protector tmp.c; echo $?
error: unknown warning option '-Wno-psabi'
[-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
1

This can be seen when compiling the whole kernel as some warnings that
are normally disabled (see below) show up. The full list of flags
missing from drivers/firmware/efi/libstub are the following (gathered
from diffing .arm64-stub.o.cmd):

-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks
-Wno-address-of-packed-member
-Wframe-larger-than=2048
-Wno-unused-const-variable
-fno-strict-overflow
-fno-merge-all-constants
-fno-stack-check
-Werror=date-time
-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types
-ffreestanding
-fno-stack-protector

Use cc-disable-warning so that it gets disabled for GCC and does nothing
for Clang.

Fixes: ebcc5928c5d9 ("arm64: Silence gcc warnings about arch ABI drift")
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/511
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Acked-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
---

v1 -> v2:

* Improve commit message explanation, I wasn't entirely happy with the
  first one; let me know if there are any issues/questions.

* Carry forward Dave's ack and Nick's review (let me know if you
  disagree with the commit messasge rewording).

 arch/arm64/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index 8fbd583b18e1..e9d2e578cbe6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ endif

 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -mgeneral-regs-only $(lseinstr) $(brokengasinst)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
-KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -Wno-psabi
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-disable-warning, psabi)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(lseinstr) $(brokengasinst)

 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=lp64)
-- 
2.22.0