Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 13/14] gcov: clang: fix clang-11+ build

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 09:01:19AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 20:44 +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 04c53de57cb6435738961dace8b1b71d3ecd3c39 ]
> >
> > With clang-11+, the code is broken due to my kvmalloc() conversion
> > (which predated the clang-11 support code) leaving one vmalloc() in
> > place.  Fix that.
>
> This patch might *apply* on 5.4 (and the other kernels you selected it
> for), but then I'm pretty sure it'll be broken, unless you also applied
> the various patches this was actually fixing (my kvmalloc conversion,
> and the clang-11 support).
>
> Also, Linus has (correctly) reverted this patch from mainline, it
> shouldn't have gone there in the first place, probably really should be
> squashed into my kvmalloc conversion patch that's in -mm now.
>
> Sorry if I didn't make that clear enough at the time.
>
>
> In any case, please drop this patch from all stable trees.

Will do, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha