Re: [PATCH] kasan: Show gcc version requirements in Kconfig and Documentation

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 10:54 +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> On 04/17/2015 07:44 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > The documentation shows a need for gcc > 4.9.2, but it's
> > really >=.  The Kconfig entries don't show require versions
> > so add them.  Correct a latter/later typo too.
[]
> > On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 23:59 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> On 04/16/2015 11:21 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >>> I have no idea what event caused the issue :-/
> >> 4.9.2+ is needed for KASan.
> > 
> > Perhaps the documentation and Kconfig entries could
> > describe that a bit better.
> > 
> 
> Could you also please mention that gcc 5+ is required to detect out of bounds accesses
> to global and stack variables?

You know better than I where and how to describe that.


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