Re: [PATCH v2] compiler.h: give up __compiletime_assert_fallback()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Sep 26 2018 - 15:35:15 EST


On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:03 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:45:19AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > I'm not digging up a compiler.h patch from a web site and adding it to
>> > > the tree this late in the release cycle. Especially given that it
>> > > hasn't had any testing anywhere...
>> >
>> > Good point about it not living in -next.
>> >
>> > Who should be carrying these sorts of patches? In the past it's been
>> > Andrew or Masahiro, yes? For linux-next, maybe it can go via -mm?
>>
>> Either is fine with me, as long as it isn't one of my trees :)
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>
> Besides, I think we want the v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/25/103

Yeah, that's what I'd linked to in the patchwork URL. Andrew, can you take this?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
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