Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the kbuild tree

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> After merging the kbuild tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) produced these warnings:
>
> Cyclomatic Complexity 1 scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c:main
> Cyclomatic Complexity 1 kernel/bounds.c:foo
> Cyclomatic Complexity 1 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_64.c:main
> Cyclomatic Complexity 1 arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:common
> Cyclomatic Complexity 5 arch/x86/ia32/audit.c:ia32_classify_syscall
>
> and so on (many, many of these - about 635,000 :-()

Congratulations on having the gcc plugin development headers
successfully installed! ;)

> Introduced (presumably) by commits
>
>   6b90bd4ba40b ("GCC plugin infrastructure")
>   0dae776c6bf3 ("Add Cyclomatic complexity GCC plugin")
>
> I have disabled CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY (by making it depend
> on CONFIG_BROKEN) until it is not enabled by default.

Ah, yes, that should default to off. We'll get a fix landed ASAP.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security