Re: [PATCH] kbuild: mkcompile_h: Include $LD version in /proc/version

Fangrui Song
2020-04-04T04:51:53Z

On 2020-04-02, Kees Cook wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:22:02AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>> With Kees patch + Masahiro's diff applied:
>> $ cat /proc/version
>> Linux version 5.6.0-rc7-next-20200330+ (ndesaulniers@<hostname
>> scrubbed>) (clang version 11.0.0 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git
>> 6d71daed03ced011cd25f4e4f4122a368fdc757d), LLD 11.0.0
>> (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git
>> 6d71daed03ced011cd25f4e4f4122a368fdc757d)) #167 SMP Thu Apr 2 11:17:36
>> PDT 2020
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>
>Awesome! Thanks for testing. :)
>
>> We could actually use this in Android for a VTS test I've, uh, been
>> meaning to write. Also, LOL at scrubbing the "compatible with" part,
>> reminds me of user agent strings in the browser, which are god awful.
>
>Heh, yeah. That's there because (actually, I think _you_ told me this
>when I asked during the ClangBuiltLinux summit) other tools scanned the
>LD version string for the binutils-specific bits. For this, since it's
>newly added to the kernel /proc/version, nothing is already expecting to
>find an LD string, and it looked super weird in there if I left it
>as-is. Hence, scrub!
>
>-Kees

Thanks for the patch! This is a great idea. The linker version may be
more useful if link-time optimizations or future post link-time
optimizations are enabled. The linker will do code generation just like
the compiler and there will be lots of variety. The LD version can
become more useful in the future.

> + LD_VERSION=$($LD -v | head -n1 | sed 's/(compatible with [^)]*)//' \

This User-Agent style hack reminds me of https://reviews.llvm.org/D31199
... Looks like nobody had posted patch to teach libtool about LLD yet!
So, I just posted a patch. It should appear on
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2020-04/index.html in
less than 15 minutes.

As what Nathan has just said

> With this patch + Masahiro's fold in:

Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>