kbuild: Switch from -Wvla to -Wvla-larger-than=1

Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) on the stack must not be used in the kernel.
Function parameter VLAs[1] should be usable, but -Wvla will warn for
those. For example, this will produce a warning but it is not using a
stack VLA:

    int something(size_t n, int array[n]) { ...

Clang has no way yet to distinguish between the VLA types[2], so
depend on GCC for now to keep stack VLAs out of the tree by using GCC's
-Wvla-larger-than=N option (though GCC may split -Wvla similarly[3] to
how Clang is planning to).

While GCC 8+ supports -Wvla-larger-than, only 9+ supports ...=0[4],
so use -Wvla-larger-than=1. Adjust mm/kasan/Makefile to remove it from
CFLAGS (GCC <9 appears unable to disable the warning correctly[5]).

The VLA usage in lib/test_ubsan.c was removed in commit 9d7ca61b1366
("lib/test_ubsan.c: VLA no longer used in kernel") so the lib/Makefile
disabling of VLA checking can be entirely removed.

Link: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/array [1]
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57098 [2]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98217 [3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7780883c-0ac8-4aaa-b850-469e33b50672@linux.ibm.com/ [4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202505071331.4iOzqmuE-lkp@intel.com/ [5]
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250418213235.work.532-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index 2d6e59561c9d..59d3d196fe4f 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -45,8 +45,13 @@ endif
 # These result in bogus false positives
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, dangling-pointer)
 
-# Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) should not be used anywhere in the kernel
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wvla
+# Stack Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) must not be used in the kernel.
+# Function array parameters should, however, be usable, but -Wvla will
+# warn for those. Clang has no way yet to distinguish between the VLA
+# types, so depend on GCC for now to keep stack VLAs out of the tree.
+# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57098
+# https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98217
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wvla-larger-than=1)
 
 # disable pointer signed / unsigned warnings in gcc 4.0
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign