linux-ext4 - Re: [GIT PULL] Compiler Attributes for v4.20-rc1

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Date:   Thu, 1 Nov 2018 18:46:17 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Compiler Attributes for v4.20-rc1

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 10:06 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The logic for using __no_sanitize_address *used* to be
>
>     #if GCC_VERSION >= 40902

Ok, looking around, I think this has less to do with the attribute
being recognized, and simply just being because KASAN itself wants
gcc-4.9.2.

I'm actually not seeing that KASAN dependency in the Kconfig scripts
(and it probably _should_ be now that we can just add compiler version
dependencies there), but that explains why the gcc version check is
different from "gcc supports the attribute".

Anyway, I decided to do the merge by just getting rid of the
GCC_VERSION check around __no_sanitize_address_or_inline entirely. If
you enable KASAN, then a function with that marking just won't be
marked inline.

End result: pulled. I'm as confused as you are as to why
__no_sanitize_address_or_inline is in the gcc header, but I guess it
ends up being the same issue: KASAN depends on gcc even if that
dependency doesn't seem to be spelled out in lib/Kconfig.kasan.

So I _think_ the KASAN config should have a

    depends on CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 40902

on it, but maybe there is something I'm missing.

But from a pull standpoint, I don't want to mess with those
(unrelated) issues, so I just kept the merge resolution as simple and
straightforward as possible.

Miguel, please do double-check the merge (it's not pushed out yet, I'm
doing the usual build tests etc first).

                    Linus