Re: [PATCH] scripts/Makefile.extrawarn: Do not show clang's non-kprintf warnings at W=1

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Clang's -Wformat-overflow and -Wformat-truncation have chosen to check
> '%p' unlike GCC but it does not know about the kernel's pointer
> extensions in lib/vsprintf.c, so the developers split that part of the
> warning out for the kernel to disable because there will always be false
> positives.
>
> Commit 908dd508276d ("kbuild: enable -Wformat-truncation on clang") did
> disabled these warnings but only in a block that would be called when
> W=1 was not passed, so they would appear with W=1. Move the disabling of
> the non-kprintf warnings to a block that always runs so that they are
> never seen, regardless of warning level.
>
> Fixes: 908dd508276d ("kbuild: enable -Wformat-truncation on clang")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202501291646.VtwF98qd-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes.



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada