* Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Before, the stack protector flag was sanity checked before .config had > been reprocessed. This meant the build couldn't be aborted early, and > only a warning could be emitted followed later by the compiler blowing > up with an unknown flag. This has caused a lot of confusion over time, > so this splits the flag selection from sanity checking and performs the > sanity checking after the make has been restarted from a reprocessed > .config, so builds can be aborted as early as possible now. > > Additionally moves the x86-specific sanity check to the same location, > since it suffered from the same warn-then-wait-for-compiler-failure > problem. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Makefile | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- > arch/x86/Makefile | 8 ------- > 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) What's the status of this patch? I can merge it if Michal acks the main Makefile bits. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
