linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: fix early boot crash on gcc-10

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Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:03:03 +0100
From:   Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...too.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix early boot crash on gcc-10

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 06:54:50PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> So having a way to state "do not add stack canary checking to this
> particular function" would be optimal. And since you already have the
> "stack_protect" function attribute I figure adding a "no_stack_protect"
> one should be easy...

Easy, but a waste when GCC already has the optimize attribute that can
handle also ~450 other options that are per-function rather than per-TU.

	Jakub