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Linus Torvalds d936eb2387 Revert "Makefile: Enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang" 
This reverts commit b7eb335e26.

It turns out that the problem with the clang -Wimplicit-fallthrough
warning is not about the kernel source code, but about clang itself, and
that the warning is unusable until clang fixes its broken ways.

In particular, when you enable this warning for clang, you not only get
warnings about implicit fallthroughs.  You also get this:

   warning: fallthrough annotation in unreachable code [-Wimplicit-fallthrough]

which is completely broken becasue it

 (a) doesn't even tell you where the problem is (seriously: no line
     numbers, no filename, no nothing).

 (b) is fundamentally broken anyway, because there are perfectly valid
     reasons to have a fallthrough statement even if it turns out that
     it can perhaps not be reached.

In the kernel, an example of that second case is code in the scheduler:

                switch (state) {
                case cpuset:
                        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPUSETS)) {
                                cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(p);
                                state = possible;
                                break;
                        }
                        fallthrough;
                case possible:

where if CONFIG_CPUSETS is enabled you actually never hit the
fallthrough case at all.  But that in no way makes the fallthrough
wrong.

So the warning is completely broken, and enabling it for clang is a very
bad idea.

In the meantime, we can keep the gcc option enabled, and make the gcc
build use

    -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5

which means that we will at least continue to require a proper
fallthrough statement, and that gcc won't silently accept the magic
comment versions. Because gcc does this all correctly, and while the odd
"=5" part is kind of obscure, it's documented in [1]:

  "-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 doesn’t recognize any comments as
   fallthrough comments, only attributes disable the warning"

so if clang ever fixes its bad behavior we can try enabling it there again.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html [1]
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-07-15 18:05:31 -07:00
arch fallthrough fixes for Clang for 5.14-rc2 2021-07-15 13:57:31 -07:00
block block-5.14-2021-07-08 2021-07-09 12:05:33 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-07-09 11:00:44 -07:00
Documentation Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
drivers pwm: Fixes for v5.14-rc2 2021-07-15 17:29:44 -07:00
fs configfs fix for Linux 5.14 2021-07-15 17:36:36 -07:00
include fallthrough fixes for Clang for 5.14-rc2 2021-07-15 13:57:31 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.14 2021-07-10 11:01:38 -07:00
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kernel fallthrough fixes for Clang for 5.14-rc2 2021-07-15 13:57:31 -07:00
lib lib/test_hmm: remove set but unused page variable 2021-07-15 10:13:49 -07:00
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samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v5.14 2021-07-10 11:01:38 -07:00
security asm-generic/unaligned: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper 2021-07-02 12:43:40 -07:00
sound ASoC: Mediatek: MT8183: Fix fall-through warning for Clang 2021-07-13 14:58:18 -05:00
tools * Allow again loading KVM on 32-bit non-PAE builds 2021-07-15 11:56:07 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
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README 

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.