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

Kees Cook
2017-06-15T02:19:51Z

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

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