Re: [PATCH] Makefile.extrawarn: re-enable -Wformat for clang

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 4:23 PM Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's been an ongoing mission to re-enable the -Wformat warning for
> Clang. A previous attempt at enabling the warning showed that there were
> many instances of this warning throughout the codebase. The sheer amount
> of these warnings really polluted builds and thus -Wno-format was added
> to _temporarily_ toggle them off.
>
> After many patches the warning has largely been eradicated for x86,
> x86_64, arm, and arm64 on a variety of configs. The time to enable the
> warning has never been better as it seems for the first time we are
> ahead of them and can now solve them as they appear rather than tackling
> from a backlog.
>
> As to the root cause of this large backlog of warnings, Clang seems to
> pickup on some more nuanced cases of format warnings caused by implicit
> integer conversion as well as default argument promotions from
> printf-like functions.
>
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/378
> Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Previous attempt: (https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kbuild/patch/20190201210853.244043-1-jflat@xxxxxxxxxxxx/)
>
> Note:
> For this patch to land on its feet, the plethora of supporting patches that
> fixed various -Wformat warnings need to be picked up. Thanfully, a lot
> of them have!
>
> Here are the patches still waiting to be picked up:
> * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220718230626.1029318-1-justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx/
> * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220711222919.2043613-1-justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx/

Hi Masahiro, Nathan, and Tom,
What are your thoughts for _when_ in the release cycle this should be
picked up?  I worry that if we don't remove this soon, we will
backslide, and more -Wformat issues will crop up making removing this
in the future like digging in sand.  Justin has chased down many
instances of this warning, and I'm happy to help clean up fallout from
landing this.

>
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index f5f0d6f09053..9bbaf7112a9b 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ else
>
>  ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-initializer-overrides
> -KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, pointer-to-enum-cast)
> --
> 2.37.0.170.g444d1eabd0-goog
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers