From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Ambrose Feinstein <ambrose@google.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 07:11:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367529089.4389.23.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130501081054.267a7851@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 08:10 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > These kind of errors are pretty hard to find, its a pity to spend
> time
> > on them.
>
> There is a checkbin target inside arch/powerpc/Makefile
> Shouldn't a check be added there to block building kernel with known
> bad GCC versions?
In this case that makes it all GCC versions except the *very
latest* .... not practical.
I suppose we should try to make sure that at least the next batch of
enterprise distro get that fix on gcc side.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-02 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-01 1:12 [PATCH net-next] af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields Eric Dumazet
2013-05-01 1:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-01 7:36 ` David Miller
2013-05-01 8:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-01 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 " Eric Dumazet
2013-05-01 15:53 ` David Laight
2013-05-01 16:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-01 19:14 ` David Miller
2013-05-01 12:08 ` [PATCH " Ben Hutchings
2013-05-03 14:29 ` David Laight
2013-05-03 15:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-03 15:44 ` David Laight
2013-05-01 1:51 ` Anton Blanchard
2013-05-01 2:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-01 3:54 ` Alan Modra
2013-05-01 5:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-01 15:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-05-02 21:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-05-03 1:31 ` Alan Modra
2013-05-03 8:20 ` David Laight
2013-05-03 12:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-03 14:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-02 17:02 ` Scott Wood
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