Disable "maybe-uninitialized" warning globally

Several build configurations had already disabled this warning because
it generates a lot of false positives.  But some had not, and it was
still enabled for "allmodconfig" builds, for example.

Looking at the warnings produced, every single one I looked at was a
false positive, and the warnings are frequent enough (and big enough)
that they can easily hide real problems that you don't notice in the
noise generated by -Wmaybe-uninitialized.

The warning is good in theory, but this is a classic case of a warning
that causes more problems than the warning can solve.

If gcc gets better at avoiding false positives, we may be able to
re-enable this warning.  But as is, we're better off without it, and I
want to be able to see the *real* warnings.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds
2016-07-27 13:17:41 -07:00
parent 468fc7ed55
commit 6e8d666e92
3 changed files with 5 additions and 10 deletions

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@@ -14,8 +14,4 @@ ifdef CONFIG_UBSAN
ifdef CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
CFLAGS_UBSAN += $(call cc-option, -fsanitize=alignment)
endif
# -fsanitize=* options makes GCC less smart than usual and
# increase number of 'maybe-uninitialized false-positives
CFLAGS_UBSAN += $(call cc-option, -Wno-maybe-uninitialized)
endif