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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 11:34:05 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] string: uninline memcpy_and_pad
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 11:03 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>
> Either case, I'll wait for advice from Linus on how to proceed.
It's a completely unimportant function, used in a couple of places,
not performance-sensitive, not security-sensitive, and not worth any
kind of buffer size checking.
And it's breaking the build because being inline somehow confuses the compiler.
It gets out-of-lined.
Kees - once you have gotten all compilers fixed and everybody using
them, you can send a patch to make it inline again.
I estimate that is in about ten years or so.
Linus
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