Re: [PATCH 03/14] security/Kconfig.hardening: Remove tautological condition from FORTIFY_SOURCE

From: Nicolas Schier

Date: Tue May 05 2026 - 12:12:33 EST


On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 10:59:09PM -0400, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
> has been raised to 17.0.1, the '!X86_32 || !Clang || Clang > 16'
> dependency of CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE is always true, so it can be
> removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-security-module@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> security/Kconfig.hardening | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@xxxxxxxxxx>