Re: [PATCH] kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constants

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Mar 20 2018 - 20:37:00 EST


On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Prasad reported that he has seen crashes in BPF subsystem with netd
> on Android with arm64 in the form of (note, the taint is unrelated):

Ack. This looks good to me. And thanks for noticing the behavior wrt
the correct gcc merging.

> [ Hi Linus, feel free to take this fix directly if you want.
> Alternatively, we could route it via bpf tree. Thanks a
> lot for your feedback! ]

So since it's your patch and the only known issue comes from the bpf
side, I think it should just go through the bpf tree, and I expect it
to get to me through all the usual channels.

Thanks,

Linus