Re: READ_ONCE() + STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG == :/ (was Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.5-2 tag (topic/kasan-bitops))
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2019-12-13 22:01:32
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:33 PM Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:
A few hundred randconfig (x86, arm32 and arm64) builds later I still only found one other instance:
Just send me the pull request to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() be
arithmetic types, and your two trivial fixes, and let's get this over
with.
With that, you can remove the 'volatile' with my simple
'typeof(0+*(p))' trick, and we're all good, and we don't need to worry
about compiler versions either.
I'm willing to take that after the merge window as a "sanity fix".
Linus