[PATCH 1/2] selftests/net: suppress clang's "variable-sized type not at the end" warning

John Hubbard jhubbard at nvidia.com
Sun May 5 15:26:38 PDT 2024


When building with clang, via:

    make LLVM=1 -C tools/testing/selftest

...clang warns that "a variable sized type not at the end of a struct or
class is a GNU extension".

These cases are not easily changed, because they involve structs that
are part of the API. Fortunately, however, the tests seem to be doing
just fine (specifically, neither affected test runs any differently with
gcc vs. clang builds, on my test system) regardless of the warning. So,
all the warning is doing is preventing a clean build of selftests/net.

Fix this by suppressing this particular clang warning for the
selftests/net suite.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
index 7b6918d5f4af..956481174783 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ CFLAGS += -I../../../../usr/include/ $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
 # Additional include paths needed by kselftest.h
 CFLAGS += -I../
 
+ifneq ($(LLVM),)
+    CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end
+endif
+
 TEST_PROGS := run_netsocktests run_afpackettests test_bpf.sh netdevice.sh \
 	      rtnetlink.sh xfrm_policy.sh test_blackhole_dev.sh
 TEST_PROGS += fib_tests.sh fib-onlink-tests.sh pmtu.sh udpgso.sh ip_defrag.sh

base-commit: f462ae0edd3703edd6f22fe41d336369c38b884b
prerequisite-patch-id: b901ece2a5b78503e2fb5480f20e304d36a0ea27
-- 
2.45.0




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