linux-hardening - [PATCH 09/11] fortify: Drop Clang version check for 12.0.1 or newer

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Message-Id: <20240125-bump-min-llvm-ver-to-13-0-1-v1-9-f5ff9bda41c5@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:55:15 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, masahiroy@...nel.org
Cc: nicolas@...sle.eu, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev, 
 patches@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, keescook@...omium.org, 
 linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 09/11] fortify: Drop Clang version check for 12.0.1 or
 newer

Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been bumped to 13.0.1, this condition is always true, as the build
will fail during the configuration stage for older LLVM versions. Remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
---
Cc: keescook@...omium.org
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
---
 security/Kconfig | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index 606a87c29a01..412e76f1575d 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ config HARDENED_USERCOPY
 config FORTIFY_SOURCE
 	bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows"
 	depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
-	# https://llvm.org/pr41459
-	depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 120001
 	# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53645
 	depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || !X86_32
 	help

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