linux-kernel - Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7

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: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

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

Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:42:07 +0100
From:   Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:     Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7

On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 16:35 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Just to confirm, with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS unset, the build behaves 
> normally, no ERROR spew.

And if MODVERSIONS is not set?

My current theory is that setting MODVERSIONS, somehow, hides the ERROR spew.
Because that could explain your bisect. Linus' commit turns of MODVERSIONS the
hard way. And, naturally, this theory fails if your .configs never had
MODVERSIONS set in the first place.

I'm testing all this right now, but you probably command more powerful
machines and could beat me in testing this theory.

Thanks,

Paul Bolle