Kbuild: Disable the -Wformat-security gcc flag

Some distributions have enabled the gcc flag -Wformat-security by default. This results in a number of warnings about format arguments to functions, sometimes in cases where fixing the warning is not likely to actually fix a bug. Instead of hand patching a dozens of places (possibly more) that produce warnings that get ignored anyway we just turn off the flag in the Makefile. Signed-off-by: Floris Kraak <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
mrcsosa · Jun 26, 2009 · a873582 · a873582
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS := -D__KERNEL__
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS   := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
 		   -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
-		   -Werror-implicit-function-declaration
+		   -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
+		   -Wno-format-security
 KBUILD_AFLAGS   := -D__ASSEMBLY__
 
 # Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)