Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 5 authors, 2021-10-21

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gcc-plugins: Explicitly document purpose and deprecation schedule

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-20 19:12:50
Also in: linux-hardening, linux-kbuild, linux-security-module, lkml, llvm

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 07:44:19PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 7:35 PM Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:
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+Purpose
+=======
Sounds good to me.
quoted
 config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
        bool
+       # Plugin can be removed once the kernel only supports GCC 6.1.0+
Since we are just giving the major in the other cases below, I would
just say GCC 6+ here (the numbering scheme changed in GCC 5 already).
Sure; now updated.
Thanks for adding the versions, by the way -- this is useful long-term
and not always done for other things...
Yeah, I always struggled to find when options were added to GCC, so I
wanted this for my poor brain too. :)
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Thanks!

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Kees Cook
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