Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

Daniel Micay
2017-06-15T02:25:51Z

On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 19:19 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 12:04 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Daniel,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:58:42 -0400 Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail
> > > .com
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > They're false positive warnings. I think objtool has a list of
> > > > __noreturn functions and needs fortify_panic added there. It's
> > > > just
> > > > a
> > > > warning so it doesn't need to happen immediately.
> > >
> > > There are *lots* of them, so it does need to be fixed (Linus will
> > > be
> > > very irritated if it hits his tree like that). Create a patch to
> > > objtool and get the x86 guys to Ack it?
> >
> > Okay, I'll send a patch. It turns out that it's very
> > straightforward.
> >
> > c1fad9ef7ed14aad464972e6444e7a3bd5670f26 is an example of an earlier
> > one.
>
> Oops, I just sent one too! :P I can use whatever; like you said, it's
> a trivial fix.
>
> -Kees

Less work for me is better ;).