From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, xin3.li@intel.com,
llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
nathan@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, peterz@infradead.org,
andrew.cooper3@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] kbuild: upgrade the orphan section warning to an error if CONFIG_WERROR is set
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 14:23:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <166699219839.2165587.10773311882818616441.b4-ty@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221025073023.16137-1-xin3.li@intel.com>
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:30:22 -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> Andrew Cooper suggested upgrading the orphan section warning to a hard link
> error. However Nathan Chancellor said outright turning the warning into an
> error with no escape hatch might be too aggressive, as we have had these
> warnings triggered by new compiler generated sections, and suggested turning
> orphan sections into an error only if CONFIG_WERROR is set. Kees Cook echoed
> and emphasized that the mandate from Linus is that we should avoid breaking
> builds. It wrecks bisection, it causes problems across compiler versions, etc.
>
> [...]
Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!
[1/1] kbuild: upgrade the orphan section warning to an error if CONFIG_WERROR is set
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/450301ceb4e6
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Kees Cook
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-28 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-25 7:30 [PATCH v2 0/1] kbuild: upgrade the orphan section warning to an error if CONFIG_WERROR is set Xin Li
2022-10-25 7:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] " Xin Li
2022-10-28 21:23 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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