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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.

  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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