Re: [PATCH -tip 00/10] Fix KCSAN for new ONCE (require Clang 11)

[Marco Elver]

On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 17:03, Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch series is the conclusion to [1], where we determined that due
> to various interactions with no_sanitize attributes and the new
> {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), KCSAN will require Clang 11 or later. Other
> sanitizers are largely untouched, and only KCSAN now has a hard
> dependency on Clang 11. To test, a recent Clang development version will
> suffice [2]. While a little inconvenient for now, it is hoped that in
> future we may be able to fix GCC and re-enable GCC support.
>
> The patch "kcsan: Restrict supported compilers" contains a detailed list
> of requirements that led to this decision.
>
> Most of the patches are related to KCSAN, however, the first patch also
> includes an UBSAN related fix and is a dependency for the remaining
> ones. The last 2 patches clean up the attributes by moving them to the
> right place, and fix KASAN's way of defining __no_kasan_or_inline,
> making it consistent with KCSAN.
>
> The series has been tested by running kcsan-test several times and
> completed successfully.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANpmjNOGFqhtDa9wWpXs2kztQsSozbwsuMO5BqqW0c0g0zGfSA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [2] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
>


Superseded by v2:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200521110854.114437-1-elver@xxxxxxxxxx