On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:41:11 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> This can easily double the time for compiling a driver but does not > provide any benefit for the compile tester, so it's better left disabled. > > In addition, any 'inline' function that is not also 'static' and that > contains an 'if' causes a warning like > > include/linux/string.h:212:2: note: in expansion of macro 'if' > if (strscpy(p, q, p_size < q_size ? p_size : q_size) < 0) > ^~ > include/linux/compiler.h:162:4: warning: '______f' is static but declared in > inline function 'strcpy' which is not static > > without this patch, and I could not come up with a nice fix for that. > In combination with my patch to always enable 'CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST' > during 'randconfig' builds, we can at least hide these warnings for > most users. This looks like it fixes the same issue that was already fixed and is in Linus's tree. http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] See commit 68e76e034b6b1 ("tracing: Prevent PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES when FORTIFY_SOURCE=y") -- Steve
