Commit a8735821d198675dd326cc5847e79df79c735119

Authored by Floris Kraak
Committed by Sam Ravnborg
1 parent 7a6b1f1c0c

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 <randakar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

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344 344  
345 345 KBUILD_CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
346 346 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
347   - -Werror-implicit-function-declaration
  347 + -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
  348 + -Wno-format-security
348 349 KBUILD_AFLAGS := -D__ASSEMBLY__
349 350  
350 351 # Read KERNELRELEASE from include/config/kernel.release (if it exists)