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Disable -Wattribute-alias for clang-23 and newer
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Fri, 15 May 2026 19:34:14 +0000 (04:34 +0900)
committerNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Thu, 28 May 2026 13:51:30 +0000 (06:51 -0700)
commit175db11786bde9061db526bf1ac5107d915f5163
tree696cca7b9dc333473ae87162f02612ee8c424e4f
parent5d6919055dec134de3c40167a490f33c74c12581
Disable -Wattribute-alias for clang-23 and newer

Clang recently added support for -Wattribute-alias [1], which results in
the same warnings that necessitated commit bee20031772a ("disable
-Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()") for GCC.

  kernel/time/itimer.c:325:1: error: alias and aliasee have different types 'long (unsigned int)' and 'long (typeof (__builtin_choose_expr((__builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof ((unsigned int)0), typeof (0LL)) || __builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof ((unsigned int)0), typeof (0ULL))), 0LL, 0L)))' (aka 'long (long)') [-Werror,-Wattribute-alias]
    325 | SYSCALL_DEFINE1(alarm, unsigned int, seconds)
        | ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:225:36: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE1'
    225 | #define SYSCALL_DEFINE1(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(1, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
        |                                    ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:236:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    236 |         __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
        |         ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:251:18: note: expanded from macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    251 |                 __attribute__((alias(__stringify(__se_sys##name))));    \
        |                                ^
  kernel/time/itimer.c:325:1: note: aliasee is declared here
  include/linux/syscalls.h:225:36: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE1'
    225 | #define SYSCALL_DEFINE1(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(1, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
        |                                    ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:236:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    236 |         __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
        |         ^
  include/linux/syscalls.h:255:18: note: expanded from macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
    255 |         asmlinkage long __se_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))  \
        |                         ^
  <scratch space>:16:1: note: expanded from here
     16 | __se_sys_alarm
        | ^

Disable the warnings in the same way for clang-23 and newer. Disable the
warning about unknown warning options to avoid breaking the build for
versions of clang-23 that do not have -Wattribute-alias, such as ones
deployed by vendors like Android or CI systems or when bisecting LLVM
between llvmorg-23-init and release/23.x.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2163
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/40da6920a0d71d49dfa2392b09153600b0759f5e
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515-syscall-disable-attribute-alias-for-clang-v1-1-9a9d95d41df6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall_wrapper.h
include/linux/compat.h
include/linux/compiler-clang.h
include/linux/compiler_types.h
include/linux/syscalls.h