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kbuild: Enable -Wtautological-compare
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Currently, we disable -Wtautological-compare, which in turn disables a
bunch of more specific tautological comparison warnings that are useful
for the kernel such as -Wtautological-bitwise-compare. See clang's
documentation below for the other warnings that are suppressed by
-Wtautological-compare. Now that all of the major/noisy warnings have
been fixed, enable -Wtautological-compare so that more issues can be
caught at build time by various continuous integration setups.

-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare is kept disabled under a
normal build but visible at W=1 because there are places in the kernel
where a constant or variable size can change based on the kernel
configuration. These are not fixed in a clean/concise way and the ones
I have audited so far appear to be harmless. It is not a subgroup but
rather just one warning so we do not lose out on much coverage by
default.

Link: ClangBuiltLinux#488
Link: http://releases.llvm.org/10.0.0/tools/clang/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wtautological-compare
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42666
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
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nathanchance authored and masahir0y committed Apr 8, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -747,8 +747,6 @@ ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -Qunused-arguments
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-invalid-specifier
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu
# Quiet clang warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-tautological-compare
# CLANG uses a _MergedGlobals as optimization, but this breaks modpost, as the
# source of a reference will be _MergedGlobals and not on of the whitelisted names.
# See modpost pattern 2
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Expand Up @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ 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)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare
endif

endif
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