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authorXin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>2022-10-25 10:30:23 +0300
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2022-11-01 20:04:52 +0300
commite1789d7c752ed001cf1a4bbbd624f70a7dd3c6db (patch)
treedac3a0cb3895d47ab1743980cfbd480f8c467ea2 /init
parent5a17f040fa332e71a45ca9ff02d6979d9176a423 (diff)
downloadlinux-e1789d7c752ed001cf1a4bbbd624f70a7dd3c6db.tar.xz
kbuild: upgrade the orphan section warning to an error if CONFIG_WERROR is set
Andrew Cooper suggested upgrading the orphan section warning to a hard link error. However Nathan Chancellor said outright turning the warning into an error with no escape hatch might be too aggressive, as we have had these warnings triggered by new compiler generated sections, and suggested turning orphan sections into an error only if CONFIG_WERROR is set. Kees Cook echoed and emphasized that the mandate from Linus is that we should avoid breaking builds. It wrecks bisection, it causes problems across compiler versions, etc. Thus upgrade the orphan section warning to a hard link error only if CONFIG_WERROR is set. Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025073023.16137-2-xin3.li@intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 694f7c160c9c..bb1225ef04e7 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -159,10 +159,12 @@ config WERROR
help
A kernel build should not cause any compiler warnings, and this
enables the '-Werror' (for C) and '-Dwarnings' (for Rust) flags
- to enforce that rule by default.
+ to enforce that rule by default. Certain warnings from other tools
+ such as the linker may be upgraded to errors with this option as
+ well.
- However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler with odd and
- unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems,
+ However, if you have a new (or very old) compiler or linker with odd
+ and unusual warnings, or you have some architecture with problems,
you may need to disable this config option in order to
successfully build the kernel.
@@ -1454,6 +1456,13 @@ config LD_ORPHAN_WARN
def_bool y
depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
+ depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=error)
+
+config LD_ORPHAN_WARN_LEVEL
+ string
+ depends on LD_ORPHAN_WARN
+ default "error" if WERROR
+ default "warn"
config SYSCTL
bool