The common error found in forward-ported/backported patches is missing
headers. One recent example (files and function names are mangled):
void foo(){}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);
gave only warning
foo.c:
12345678:5: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes]
void foo(){}
^
foo.c:
12345679:5: warning: data definition has no type or storage class [enabled by default]
EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);
foo.c:
12345679:5: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXORT_SYMBOL' [-Werror=implicit-int]
Now it's a fatal error. Tested on x86_64 allyesconfig.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typos in comments]
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
# conserve stack if available
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fconserve-stack)
+# disallow errors like 'EXPORT_GPL(foo);' with missing header
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=implicit-int)
+
+# require functions to have arguments in prototypes, not empty 'int foo()'
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=strict-prototypes)
+
# use the deterministic mode of AR if available
KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)