Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Nov 18 2017 - 00:29:30 EST


On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FWIW, myself doing a build at d9e12200852d with and without
> GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT _appears_ to produce identical objdump output
> where I did spot-checks.

That would probably be a good thing to check anyway - check the
difference between GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT on and off at that commit.

Just do

objdump --disassemble vmlinux > file

and compare the two files for where the differences start occurring.

Linus