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kbuild: treat char as always unsigned
Recently, some compile-time checking I added to the clamp_t family of functions triggered a build error when a poorly written driver was compiled on ARM, because the driver assumed that the naked `char` type is signed, but ARM treats it as unsigned, and the C standard says it's architecture-dependent. I doubt this particular driver is the only instance in which unsuspecting authors make assumptions about `char` with no `signed` or `unsigned` specifier. We were lucky enough this time that that driver used `clamp_t(char, negative_value, positive_value)`, so the new checking code found it, and I've sent a patch to fix it, but there are likely other places lurking that won't be so easily unearthed. So let's just eliminate this particular variety of heisensign bugs entirely. Set `-funsigned-char` globally, so that gcc makes the type unsigned on all architectures. This will break things in some places and fix things in others, so this will likely cause a bit of churn while reconciling the type misuse. Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]>
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