Starting with gcc-8.1, we get a warning about all system call definitions, which use an alias between functions with incompatible prototypes, e.g.:
In file included from ../mm/process_vm_access.c:19: ../include/linux/syscalls.h:211:18: warning: 'sys_process_vm_readv' alias between functions of incompatible types 'long int(pid_t, const struct iovec *, long unsigned int, const struct iovec *, long unsigned int, long unsigned int)' {aka 'long int(int, const struct iovec *, long unsigned int, const struct iovec *, long unsigned int, long unsigned int)'} and 'long int(long int, long int, long int, long int, long int, long int)' [-Wattribute-alias] asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__)) \ ^~~ ../include/linux/syscalls.h:207:2: note: in expansion of macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx' __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../include/linux/syscalls.h:201:36: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx' #define SYSCALL_DEFINE6(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(6, _##name, __VA_ARGS__) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../mm/process_vm_access.c:300:1: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE6' SYSCALL_DEFINE6(process_vm_readv, pid_t, pid, const struct iovec __user *, lvec, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../include/linux/syscalls.h:215:18: note: aliased declaration here asmlinkage long SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__)) \ ^~~ ../include/linux/syscalls.h:207:2: note: in expansion of macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx' __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../include/linux/syscalls.h:201:36: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx' #define SYSCALL_DEFINE6(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(6, _##name, __VA_ARGS__) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../mm/process_vm_access.c:300:1: note: in expansion of macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE6' SYSCALL_DEFINE6(process_vm_readv, pid_t, pid, const struct iovec __user *, lvec,
This is really noisy and does not indicate a real problem. In the latest mainline kernel, this was addressed by commit bee20031772a ("disable -Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()"), which seems too invasive to backport.
This takes a much simpler approach and just disables the warning across the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --- Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index f4cd42c9b940..41b9954dc0a9 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -635,6 +635,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning,frame-address,) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-truncation) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-overflow) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, int-in-bool-context) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, attribute-alias)
ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-ffunction-sections,)