Makefile.extrawarn: re-enable -Wformat for clang; take 2

-Wformat was recently re-enabled for builds with clang, then quickly
re-disabled, due to concerns stemming from the frequency of default
argument promotion related warning instances.

commit 2e07f252bba2 ("Makefile.extrawarn: re-enable -Wformat for clang")
commit 84b92b5c1a26 ("Revert "Makefile.extrawarn: re-enable -Wformat for clang"")

ISO WG14 has ratified N2562 to address default argument promotion
explicitly for printf, as part of the upcoming ISO C2X standard.

The behavior of clang was changed in clang-16 to not warn for the cited
cases in all language modes.

Add a version check, so that users of clang-16 now get the full effect
of -Wformat. For older clang versions, re-enable flags under the
-Wformat group that way users still get some useful checks related to
format strings, without noisy default argument promotion warnings. I
intentionally omitted -Wformat-y2k and -Wformat-security from being
re-enabled, which are also part of -Wformat in clang-16.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/378
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57102
Link: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2562.pdf
Suggested-by: Justin Stitt <jstitt007@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Youngmin Nam <youngmin.nam@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index 0621c39a3955674dc9dda8e54e605203800bcaaa..6ae482158bc419a98a725b1799b14b5541948fd0 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -47,7 +47,19 @@ else
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-initializer-overrides
+# Clang before clang-16 would warn on default argument promotions.
+ifeq ($(shell [ $(CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION) -lt 160000 ] && echo y),y)
+# Disable -Wformat
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
+# Then re-enable flags that were part of the -Wformat group that aren't
+# problematic.
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-invalid-specifier
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-zero-length -Wnonnull
+# Requires clang-12+.
+ifeq ($(shell [ $(CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION) -ge 120000 ] && echo y),y)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wformat-insufficient-args
+endif
+endif
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, pointer-to-enum-cast)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare