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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:19:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504199967.666.16.camel@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jL8Ueuw-DLY+Hz8Jd7NgqgyaaN8OVDicFxmcjBhScebOA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 10:00 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> Oh! So it's gcc-version sensitive? That's alarming. Is this mapping correct:
> 
> 4.8.5: WARN, eventual kernel hang
> 6.3.1, 7.0.1: WARN, but continues working

Yeah, that's correct.  I find that troubling, simply because this gcc
version has been through one hell of a lot of kernels with me.  Yeah, I
know, that doesn't exempt it from having bugs, but color me suspicious.

	-Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-31 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-29  8:50 tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29  8:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-08-29  9:21   ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29  9:27     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-08-29 10:03       ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 15:39         ` Kees Cook
2017-08-29 16:34           ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 15:58 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-29 16:55   ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 18:10     ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-29 18:41       ` Kees Cook
2017-08-30  5:02         ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-30 16:35           ` Kees Cook
2017-08-30 17:13             ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-30 17:32               ` Kees Cook
2017-08-30 17:55                 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-30 19:19                   ` Kees Cook
2017-08-30 19:46                     ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31  2:09                       ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31  2:27                         ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31  3:12                           ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31  4:01                             ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31  4:10                               ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31  4:38                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 13:58                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2017-08-31 17:00                                   ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 17:19                                     ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2017-08-31 18:45                                       ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01  6:57                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 13:09                                           ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 17:12                                             ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01 17:52                                               ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 18:58                                                 ` Kees Cook
2017-09-01 19:24                                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2017-09-01 19:40                                                   ` Kees Cook
2017-08-31 19:28                                   ` Kees Cook

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