On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:46 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Argh. I wanted to get rid of all that entirely, and simplify this all. >> The mentioned script (and bugzilla) was from 2006, I assumed this was >> all historical. >> >> But if it has broken again since, I guess we need to have a silly script. Grr. > [...] > Oh well. It looks like we really have to have those nasty exceptions > from the normal rules. Yeah, I was really disappointed to discover the broken gcc case Arnd had while I was testing the new ..._AUTO option. I thought I was going to be able to throw away a whole bunch of the complexity too. :( And this was on top of the recent discussion about raising the minimum gcc level to a place where there wasn't any need for the "old broken gcc" stack-protectors checks. But, no, that would have been too easy. :( -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
