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

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Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:15:44 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        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>,
        Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
        Sparse Mailing-list <linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <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 Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] compiler.h: give up __compiletime_assert_fallback()

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:48 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:51 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> No, I am not.
>
> Putting all sort of things into kbuild basket
> is painful for me.

Okay, I'll take it for the VLA series.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security