linux: disable attribute alias with gcc >= 8.1

gcc-8 started warning about function aliases that have a non-matching
prototype. This seems rather useful in general, but it causes tons of
warnings in the Linux kernel, where we rely on abusing those aliases
for system call entry points, in order to sanitze the arguments passed
from user space in registers.

See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435

Disable the attribute-alias warning introduced by gcc-8 by adding
-Wno-attribute-alias to KCFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

diff --git a/linux/linux.mk b/linux/linux.mk
index 7f4c91667149b7bc7b12ccc65012347ced7c2327..7527b116730915efb7cdcdca71bfbbc560b49b9a 100644 (file)
--- a/linux/linux.mk
+++ b/linux/linux.mk
@@ -121,6 +121,16 @@ LINUX_MAKE_ENV += \
        KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP="$(shell LC_ALL=C date -d @$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH))"
 endif
 
+# gcc-8 started warning about function aliases that have a
+# non-matching prototype.  This seems rather useful in general, but it
+# causes tons of warnings in the Linux kernel, where we rely on
+# abusing those aliases for system call entry points, in order to
+# sanitize the arguments passed from user space in registers.
+# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8),y)
+LINUX_MAKE_ENV += KCFLAGS=-Wno-attribute-alias
+endif
+
 # Get the real Linux version, which tells us where kernel modules are
 # going to be installed in the target filesystem.
 LINUX_VERSION_PROBED = `$(MAKE) $(LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS) -C $(LINUX_DIR) --no-print-directory -s kernelrelease 2>/dev/null`