gcc-10: disable 'zero-length-bounds' warning for now

This is a fine warning, but we still have a number of zero-length arrays
in the kernel that come from the traditional gcc extension.  Yes, they
are getting converted to flexible arrays, but in the meantime the gcc-10
warning about zero-length bounds is very verbose, and is hiding other
issues.

I missed one actual build failure because it was hidden among hundreds
of lines of warning.  Thankfully I caught it on the second go before
pushing things out, but it convinced me that I really need to disable
the new warnings for now.

We'll hopefully be all done with our conversion to flexible arrays in
the not too distant future, and we can then re-enable this warning.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1e94f4f15d92e1410f069f158cce1da3374ed69c..68a781326dd7f28725687ef92c237cee2660fcd7 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -877,6 +877,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
 # disable stringop warnings in gcc 8+
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, stringop-truncation)
 
+# We'll want to enable this eventually, but it's not going away for 5.7 at least
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, zero-length-bounds)
+
 # Enabled with W=2, disabled by default as noisy
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, maybe-uninitialized)