linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:02:55 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        adobriyan@...il.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 4:52:06 PM CEST Michal Marek wrote:
> Dne 17.10.2016 v 14:26 Arnd Bergmann napsal(a):
> > This adds an asm/asm-prototypes.h header for ARM to fix the
> > broken symbol versioning for symbols exported from assembler
> > files.
> > 
> > In addition to the header, we have to do these other small
> > changes:
> > 
> > - move the 'extern' declarations out of memset_io/memcpy_io
> >   to make them visible to the symbol version generator
> > - move the exports from bitops.h to {change,clear,set,...}bit.S
> > - move the exports from csumpartialgeneric.S into the files
> >   including it
> > 
> > I couldn't find the correct prototypes for the compiler builtins,
> > so I went with the fake 'void f(void)' prototypes that we had
> > before.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> just to make sure I'm looking at the right code - is this based on the
> patch by Nick here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9377783/?
> 

(adding Russell to Cc, I missed him during my earlier mail, which
is now archived at https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/17/356)

Correct.  I had imported Nick's patch into my randconfig tree and
this is what I needed to build all configurations cleanly with it.

	Arnd