Re: [PATCH v2] random: vDSO: Avoid call to memset() when zeroing reserved in __cvdso_getrandom_data()

On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:46:32 +0100, Nathan Chancellor wrote:

quoted

After a recent change in LLVM [1], builds with the random vDSO
implementation, such as PowerPC and RISC-V, fail when checking the vDSO:

  arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg: dynamic relocations are not supported
  arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg: dynamic relocations are not supported

memset() is now generated when zeroing params->reserved for some builds
because LLVM has an optimization (now run in more instances) that can
recognize at compile time when it is assigning a static value to a
contiguous area of memory and turn that into a call to memset(). Both
clang and GCC assume memset() is always available [2].

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Applied, thanks!

[1/1] random: vDSO: Avoid call to memset() when zeroing reserved in __cvdso_getrandom_data()
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That's not for you to apply. I'm sending this through my random tree,
along with a handful of other things I need to fix. But I wanted to
let this cook a bit more. I can add your reviewed-by line, though.

Jason