[PATCH 6.18 713/752] kbuild: Fix CC_CAN_LINK detection

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:58:51Z

From: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>

[ Upstream commit be55899b71630c79ad01df54c92e467e47644f87 ]

Most samples cannot be build on some environments because they depend
on CC_CAN_LINK, which is set according to the result of
scripts/cc-can-link.sh called by cc_can_link_user.

Because cc-can-link.sh must now build without warning, it may fail
because it is calling printf() with an empty string:

+ cat
+ gcc -m32 -Werror -Wl,--fatal-warnings -x c - -o /dev/null
<stdin>: In function ‘main’:
<stdin>:4:9: error: zero-length gnu_printf format string [-Werror=format-zero-length]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Fix this warning and the samples build by actually printing something.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d81d9d389b9b ("kbuild: don't enable CC_CAN_LINK if the dummy program generates warnings")
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260212133544.1331437-1-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
scripts/cc-can-link.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/cc-can-link.sh b/scripts/cc-can-link.sh
index e67fd8d7b6841..58dc7dd6d5568 100755
--- a/scripts/cc-can-link.sh
+++ b/scripts/cc-can-link.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ cat << "END" | $@ -Werror -Wl,--fatal-warnings -x c - -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
- printf("");
+ printf("\n");
return 0;
}
END
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