linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] compiler.h: give up __compiletime_assert

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Date:   Wed, 10 Oct 2018 07:49:16 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
        Sparse Mailing-list <linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>,
        Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] compiler.h: give up __compiletime_assert_fallback()

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 8:12 AM Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 05:07, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Yeah, that's what I'd linked to in the patchwork URL. Andrew, can you take this?
>>
>> clang built -next is blowing up now that Kees' -Wvla patch has been
>> included. This patch fixes it.
>>
>> Kees, perhaps it should go in your tree along side of the -Wvla patch
>> if no one else wants to take it?
>>
>
> I can take it along in the compiler attributes tree, since that
> touches the compiler*.h stuff. Although that would make it
> not-only-attributes, i.e. slightly lying :-)

Oh, I had assumed Masahiro was going to carry it. If that's not true,
sure I'll pick it up as part of my VLA "series".

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security