Commit 68df3755e383e6fecf2354a67b08f92f18536594

Authored by Linus Torvalds
1 parent a1e4ee2286

Add '-fwrapv' to gcc CFLAGS

This makes sure that gcc doesn't try to optimize away wrapping
arithmetic, which the kernel occasionally uses for overflow testing, ie
things like

	if (ptr + offset < ptr)

which technically is undefined for non-unsigned types. See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12597

for details.

Not all versions of gcc support it, so we need to make it conditional
(it looks like it was introduced in gcc-3.4).

Reminded-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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347 347 KBUILD_CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
348 348 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
349 349 -Werror-implicit-function-declaration
  350 +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fwrapv)
350 351 KBUILD_AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__
351 352  
352 353 # Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)