From: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au
[ Upstream commit be640317a1d0b9cf42fedb2debc2887a7cfa38de ]
With GCC 12 allmodconfig prom_init fails to build:
Error: External symbol 'memset' referenced from prom_init.c make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:204: arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check] Error 1
The allmodconfig build enables KASAN, so all calls to memset in prom_init should be converted to __memset by the #ifdefs in asm/string.h, because prom_init must use the non-KASAN instrumented versions.
The build failure happens because there's a call to memset that hasn't been caught by the pre-processor and converted to __memset. Typically that's because it's a memset generated by the compiler itself, and that is the case here.
With GCC 12, allmodconfig enables CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN, which causes the compiler to emit memset calls to initialise on-stack variables with a pattern.
Because prom_init is non-user-facing boot-time only code, as a workaround just disable stack variable initialisation to unbreak the build.
Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220718134418.354114-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile index b1b23b4d56ba..ed91d5b9ffc6 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ CFLAGS_prom.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN) CFLAGS_prom_init.o += -fno-stack-protector CFLAGS_prom_init.o += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING CFLAGS_prom_init.o += -ffreestanding +CFLAGS_prom_init.o += $(call cc-option, -ftrivial-auto-var-init=uninitialized)
ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER # Do not trace early boot code