[PATCH v2 04/16] security/Kconfig.hardening: Remove tautological condition from CC_HAS_RANDSTRUCT

From: Nathan Chancellor

Date: Sun May 17 2026 - 19:07:28 EST


Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been raised to 17.0.1, the '!Clang || Clang >= 16' dependency for
CONFIG_CC_HAS_RANDSTRUCT is always true, so it can be removed.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/Kconfig.hardening b/security/Kconfig.hardening
index e4f23c08a17a..b90cf9ed4642 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig.hardening
+++ b/security/Kconfig.hardening
@@ -274,9 +274,6 @@ endmenu

config CC_HAS_RANDSTRUCT
def_bool $(cc-option,-frandomize-layout-seed-file=/dev/null)
- # Randstruct was first added in Clang 15, but it isn't safe to use until
- # Clang 16 due to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/60349
- depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 160000

choice
prompt "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"

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2.54.0