Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=

[Kees Cook]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:28 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:46 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Argh. I wanted to get rid of all that entirely, and simplify this all.
>> The mentioned script (and bugzilla) was from 2006, I assumed this was
>> all historical.
>>
>> But if it has broken again since, I guess we need to have a silly script. Grr.
> [...]
> Oh well. It looks like we really have to have those nasty exceptions
> from the normal rules.

Yeah, I was really disappointed to discover the broken gcc case Arnd
had while I was testing the new ..._AUTO option. I thought I was going
to be able to throw away a whole bunch of the complexity too. :( And
this was on top of the recent discussion about raising the minimum gcc
level to a place where there wasn't any need for the "old broken gcc"
stack-protectors checks. But, no, that would have been too easy. :(

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security