linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/3] kbuild: don't enable CC_CAN_LINK if the dummy program generates warnings

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Message-Id: <20251114-kbuild-userprogs-bits-v3-1-4dee0d74d439@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:43:56 +0100
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
To: Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, 
 Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] kbuild: don't enable CC_CAN_LINK if the dummy
 program generates warnings

It is possible that the kernel toolchain generates warnings when used
together with the system toolchain. This happens for example when the
older kernel toolchain does not handle new versions of sframe debug
information. While these warnings where ignored during the evaluation
of CC_CAN_LINK, together with CONFIG_WERROR the actual userprog build
will later fail.

Example warning:

.../x86_64-linux/13.2.0/../../../../x86_64-linux/bin/ld:
error in /lib/../lib64/crt1.o(.sframe); no .sframe will be created
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Make sure that the very simple example program does not generate
warnings already to avoid breaking the userprog compilations.

Fixes: ec4a3992bc0b ("kbuild: respect CONFIG_WERROR for linker and assembler")
Fixes: 3f0ff4cc6ffb ("kbuild: respect CONFIG_WERROR for userprogs")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
---
 scripts/cc-can-link.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/cc-can-link.sh b/scripts/cc-can-link.sh
index 6efcead3198989d2ab2ab6772c72d8bb61c89c4e..e67fd8d7b6841e53341045b28dc5196cc1327cbe 100755
--- a/scripts/cc-can-link.sh
+++ b/scripts/cc-can-link.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
-cat << "END" | $@ -x c - -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
+cat << "END" | $@ -Werror -Wl,--fatal-warnings -x c - -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
 #include <stdio.h>
 int main(void)
 {

-- 
2.51.0