Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] erroneous buffer overflow detected in bch2_xattr_validate

[Jan Hendrik Farr <kernel@jfarr.cc>]

On 21 08:04:03, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > Also after gcc 15 is released I don't think a version check for gcc
> > should be necessary. I only see an explicit version check as required
> > when we know a certain version is broken. Otherwise I would prefer using
> > the build test.
> 
> Yeah, build tests are nice, although they require spawning a process
> and so on, which (as far as I understand) we try to minimize. Version
> checks also have the advantage that it is easy to remember/check when
> we can remove the checks themselves when we upgrade the minimum
> versions.
> 

If the goal is to minimize the need for build tests, I think we should
go with Nathan's suggestion of keeping the build test for now (to
support pre-release gcc versions) and remove it and just go with
versions checks for both gcc and clang once gcc 15 is released.

Best Regards
Jan