Makefile: Enable -Wcast-function-type

In order to make sure new function cast mismatches are not introduced
in the kernel (to avoid tripping CFI checking), the kernel should be
globally built with -Wcast-function-type.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/20
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2021-09-29 16:18:03 -05:00
parent fa55b7dcdc
commit 552a23a0e5

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@ -953,6 +953,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wvla
# disable pointer signed / unsigned warnings in gcc 4.0
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
# In order to make sure new function cast mismatches are not introduced
# in the kernel (to avoid tripping CFI checking), the kernel should be
# globally built with -Wcast-function-type.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wcast-function-type)
# disable stringop warnings in gcc 8+
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, stringop-truncation)