linux-kernel - Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.9

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:12:43 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.9

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> JFYI, when comparing v4.9[1] to v4.9-rc8[3], the summaries are:
>   - build errors: +3/-4

  + error: page_ext.c: undefined reference to
`__end_data_ro_after_init':  => .text+0x19860)
  + error: page_ext.c: undefined reference to
`__start_data_ro_after_init':  => .text+0x1985c)

arm-randconfig (CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL=y, patch available since 3 weeks)

> [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/69973b830859bc6529a7a0468ba0d80ee5117826/ (all 267 configs)
> [3] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/3e5de27e940d00d8d504dfb96625fb654f641509/ (all 267 configs)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds