linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the origin tree

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Message-ID: <20200730023044.GA7518@1wt.eu>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jul 2020 04:30:44 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the origin tree

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 07:12:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 5:09 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Removing the __latent_entropy marker obviously fixes things.
> 
> Ok, I did that for now. I spent a few minutes looking at the gcc
> plugin in case I'd be hit by some sudden stroke of genius, but that
> didn't happen, so let's avoid the issue until somebody who knows the
> gcc plugins better can come up with what the right solution is.

I've looked if we couldn't we work around this by declaring another
static variable with __latent_entropy and use it to initialize
net_rand_state early, for example in prandom_init(), but there we
already fill net_rand_state with randoms so I'm wondering if that
__latent_entropy is used before prandom_init() or if its sole purpose
is to provide extra initial entropy to be combined with the one
prandom_init() will add.

Willy