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gcc-plugins: disable GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL for COMPILE_TEST

We have enabled GCC_PLUGINS for COMPILE_TEST, but allmodconfig now
produces new warnings.

CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.o
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c: In function ‘wlc_phy_workarounds_nphy_rev7’:
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c:16563:1: warning: the frame size of 3128 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
}
^
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c: In function ‘wlc_phy_workarounds_nphy_rev3’:
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c:16905:1: warning: the frame size of 2800 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
}
^
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c: In function ‘wlc_phy_cal_txiqlo_nphy’:
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c:26033:1: warning: the frame size of 2488 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
}
^

It looks like GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL is causing this.
Add "depends on !COMPILE_TEST" to not dirturb the compile test.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

+1
+1
arch/Kconfig
··· 486 486 config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL 487 487 bool "Force initialize all struct type variables passed by reference" 488 488 depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK 489 + depends on !COMPILE_TEST 489 490 help 490 491 Zero initialize any struct type local variable that may be passed by 491 492 reference without having been initialized.