[PATCH 1/2] x86/boot: Use '-std=gnu11' to fix build with GCC 15
From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Tue Jan 21 2025 - 20:12:20 EST
GCC 15 changed the default C standard version to C23, which should not
have impacted the kernel because it requests the gnu11 standard via
'-std=' in the main Makefile. However, the x86 compressed boot Makefile
uses its own set of KBUILD_CFLAGS without a '-std=' value (i.e., using
the default), resulting in errors from the kernel's definitions of bool,
true, and false in stddef.h, which are reserved keywords under C23.
./include/linux/stddef.h:11:9: error: expected identifier before ‘false’
11 | false = 0,
./include/linux/types.h:35:33: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers
35 | typedef _Bool bool;
Set '-std=gnu11' in the x86 compressed boot Makefile to resolve the
error and consistently use the same C standard version for the entire
kernel.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Kostadin Shishmanov <kostadinshishmanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/4OAhbllK7x4QJGpZjkYjtBYNLd_2whHx9oFiuZcGwtVR4hIzvduultkgfAIRZI3vQpZylu7Gl929HaYFRGeMEalWCpeMzCIIhLxxRhq4U-Y=@protonmail.com/
Reported-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/Z4467umXR2PZ0M1H@tucnak/
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index f2051644de94..606c74f27459 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma \
# avoid errors with '-march=i386', and future flags may depend on the target to
# be valid.
KBUILD_CFLAGS := -m$(BITS) -O2 $(CLANG_FLAGS)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -std=gnu11
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIE
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wundef
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
--
2.48.1