On 12/02/2016 08:03 PM, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.8-stable tree. > > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. > > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to > <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be > applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be > seen again. > Yes, it was seriously submitted to stable. The reason for this is that gcc7 enables use-after-scope option by default (-fsanitze=kernel-address enables -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope). With this options gcc7 emits calls to __asan_[un]poison_stack_memory(), but they are not present in older kernels. So compiling with gcc7 without this patch would cause link errors. But I've got better idea. gcc7 isn't released yet, so we can fix this on gcc7 site simply by changing default to -fNO-sanitize-address-use-after-scope for -fsanitize=kernel-address This should be trivial. Dmitry, can you do that? Or we can file a bug and someone else will fix that. > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html