Re: [GIT PULL] ext2, quota, and udf fixes for 6.6-rc1

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On October 20, 2023 1:36:36 PM PDT, andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>That said, if you or anyone has ideas how to debug futher, I'm all ears!

I don't think this has been tried yet:

When I've had these kind of hard-to-find glitches I've used manual built-binary bisection. Assuming you have a source tree that works when built with Clang and not with GCC:
- build the tree with Clang with, say, O=build-clang
- build the tree with GCC, O=build-gcc
- make a new tree for testing: cp -a build-clang build-test
- pick a suspect .o file (or files) to copy from build-gcc into build-test
- perform a relink: "make O=build-test" should DTRT since the copied-in .o files should be newer than the .a and other targets
- test for failure, repeat

Once you've isolated it to (hopefully) a single .o file, then comes the byte-by-byte analysis or something similar...

I hope that helps! These kinds of bugs are super frustrating.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook





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