linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure

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Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2016 23:26:48 +0200
From:	"PaX Team" <pageexec@...email.hu>
To:	David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>, Jeff Law <law@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
CC:	Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
	<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure

On 12 Apr 2016 at 12:46, Kees Cook wrote:

> Looks like it's in the upstream tree:
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=bfe972081c3c75019fa5a6e883dcbeb5e03eea18
> 
> I'm not sure how GCC does bug fix releases. Is this going to be in 5.4
> or 5.3.1? (Is there such a thing as 5.3.1 planned?) I've CCed Jeff in
> case he's got a moment to peek at this.

gcc-5 will be maintained until gcc-7 (due in a year) so this commit will end up in
the next minor release (5.4) eventually.