linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] rust: allow to use INIT_STACK_ALL

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Date:   Sun, 9 Apr 2023 22:49:58 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rust: allow to use INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO

On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 8:02 AM Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> The check (< 16) looks correct and the comment also looks correct to me,
> this option will be removed in clang 18, as mentioned here:
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/llvmorg-16.0.0-rc2/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst#deprecated-compiler-flags
>
> (Maybe we could add also this link as a reference)

Thanks for taking a look -- Kees' link added!

I removed "(as the name of the option suggests)" from the commit
message, by the way, since the name of the option suggests the
original `-ftrivial` option was to be removed, not the `-enable` one.
If that understanding is wrong, please let me know!

Cheers,
Miguel