Re: READ_ONCE() + STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG == :/ (was Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.5-2 tag (topic/kasan-bitops))
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Dec 17 2019 - 13:06:15 EST
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 10:04 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Let me think about it.
.. and in the short term, maybe for code generation, the right thing
is to just do the cast in the bitops, where we can just cast to
"unsigned long *" and remove the volatile that way.
I'm still hoping there's a trick, but..
Linus