[regression v4.17-rc0] Re: FORTIFY_SOURCE breaks ARM compilation in -next -- was Re: ARM compile failure in Re: linux-next: Tree for Apr 4

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

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Hi!

> Thanks.
> 
> Ok, let me try to bisect it. Compile-problem should be easy...
> 
> Hmm. And as it is compile-problem in single file, it should even be
> reasonably fast. I did not realize how easy it would be:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> set -e
> cp config.ok .config
> yes '' | ARCH=arm make lib/string.o
> 
> And the winner is:
> 
> ee333554fed55555a986a90bb097ac7f9d6f05bf is the first bad commit
> commit ee333554fed55555a986a90bb097ac7f9d6f05bf
> Author: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Mar 6 01:39:24 2018 +0100
...

>     Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

So I bisect a problem in -next, and patch is merged to Linus,
_anyway_, breaking compilation there? Neither Jinbum nor Russell even
bother to comment.

And BTW, Russell, there's another regression I bisected to your
commit, that one is like two releases old, and "only" causes
compilation warnings during build with non-US locale. I even proposed
fix for that. Guess what? Ignored too.


									Pavel
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