Re: [PATCH -tip 1/2] Kconfig: Bump required compiler version of KASAN and UBSAN

[Marco Elver]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 20:53, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 8:44 PM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Adds config variable CC_HAS_WORKING_NOSANITIZE, which will be true if we
> > have a compiler that does not fail builds due to no_sanitize functions.
> > This does not yet mean they work as intended, but for automated
> > build-tests, this is the minimum requirement.
> >
> > For example, we require that __always_inline functions used from
> > no_sanitize functions do not generate instrumentation. On GCC <= 7 this
> > fails to build entirely, therefore we make the minimum version GCC 8.
>
> Could you also update KASAN docs to mention this requirement? As a
> separate patch or in v2, up to you.

I can do a v2 tomorrow. But all this is once again tangled up with
KCSAN, so I was hoping to keep changes minimal. ;-)

Thanks,
-- Marco