On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * 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. There's been no feedback yet, but I'd really like to see it landed: it removes a lot of ambiguity for this option (and creates a place for future similar options). -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security -- 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
