Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning

Now that all the fall-through warnings have been addressed in the
kernel, enable the fall-through warning globally.

Also, update the deprecated.rst file to include implicit fall-through
as 'deprecated' so people can be pointed to a single location for
justification.

Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
index 49e0f64a3427deeec7eebf456e2549085ab378ff..053b24a6dd38cce19fc6d5ae1ed800dcb55cab00 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
@@ -119,3 +119,17 @@ array may exceed the remaining memory in the stack segment. This could
 lead to a crash, possible overwriting sensitive contents at the end of the
 stack (when built without `CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y`), or overwriting
 memory adjacent to the stack (when built without `CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y`)
+
+Implicit switch case fall-through
+---------------------------------
+The C language allows switch cases to "fall through" when
+a "break" statement is missing at the end of a case. This,
+however, introduces ambiguity in the code, as it's not always
+clear if the missing break is intentional or a bug. As there
+have been a long list of flaws `due to missing "break" statements
+<https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/484.html>`_, we no longer allow
+"implicit fall-through". In order to identify an intentional fall-through
+case, we have adopted the marking used by static analyzers: a comment
+saying `/* Fall through */`. Once the C++17 `__attribute__((fallthrough))`
+is more widely handled by C compilers, static analyzers, and IDEs, we can
+switch to using that instead.

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9be5834073f8937f5ceb358e620af0795243b56d..bdf8eac51b079f0e4cee09e6d7cda1110e43144b 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -843,6 +843,9 @@ NOSTDINC_FLAGS += -nostdinc -isystem $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include)
 # warn about C99 declaration after statement
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wdeclaration-after-statement
 
+# Warn about unmarked fall-throughs in switch statement.
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough=3,)
+
 # Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) should not be used anywhere in the kernel
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wvla