linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:25:48 -0400
From:   Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 19:19 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 12:04 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Daniel,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:58:42 -0400 Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il
> > > .com
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > They're false positive warnings. I think objtool has a list of
> > > > __noreturn functions and needs fortify_panic added there. It's
> > > > just
> > > > a
> > > > warning so it doesn't need to happen immediately.
> > > 
> > > There are *lots* of them, so it does need to be fixed (Linus will
> > > be
> > > very irritated if it hits his tree like that).  Create a patch to
> > > objtool and get the x86 guys to Ack it?
> > 
> > Okay, I'll send a patch. It turns out that it's very
> > straightforward.
> > 
> > c1fad9ef7ed14aad464972e6444e7a3bd5670f26 is an example of an earlier
> > one.
> 
> Oops, I just sent one too! :P I can use whatever; like you said, it's
> a trivial fix.
> 
> -Kees

Less work for me is better ;).