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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: Change all version strings match kernel
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 12:28:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202205231225.1CBACF63@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220523143054.GA3164771@roeck-us.net>

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 07:30:54AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 04:54:12PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > It's not meaningful for the GCC plugins to track their versions separately
> > from the rest of the kernel. Switch all versions to the kernel version.
> > 
> > Fix mismatched indenting while we're at it.
> > 
> > Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> I see random build failures with this patch in linux-next.
> 
> Error log:
> cc1plus: fatal error: ./include/generated/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory
> 
> The problem doesn't happen all the time. Is there some missing dependency ?

I've seen 0-day reports on this too and but I haven't been able to reproduce
it. AFAICT, utsrelease.h should be generated before the gcc plugins are
built, but clearly something is wrong.

> >  plugin_cxxflags	= -Wp,-MMD,$(depfile) $(KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS) -fPIC \
> >  		  -include $(srctree)/include/linux/compiler-version.h \
> > +		  -include $(objtree)/include/generated/utsrelease.h \

I wonder if include/generated/utsrelease.h needs to be explicitly added
as a build dep to the plugin logic?

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-23 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-10 23:54 [PATCH] gcc-plugins: Change all version strings match kernel Kees Cook
2022-05-11  7:31 ` kernel test robot
2022-05-23 14:30 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-05-23 19:28   ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-05-23 19:56     ` Guenter Roeck
2022-05-23 19:54   ` Kees Cook
2022-05-25 22:42     ` Anders Roxell

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