Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] kbuild: upgrade the orphan section warning to an error if CONFIG_WERROR is set

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Oct 28 2022 - 17:23:50 EST


On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:30:22 -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> Andrew Cooper suggested upgrading the orphan section warning to a hard link
> error. However Nathan Chancellor said outright turning the warning into an
> error with no escape hatch might be too aggressive, as we have had these
> warnings triggered by new compiler generated sections, and suggested turning
> orphan sections into an error only if CONFIG_WERROR is set. Kees Cook echoed
> and emphasized that the mandate from Linus is that we should avoid breaking
> builds. It wrecks bisection, it causes problems across compiler versions, etc.
>
> [...]

Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!

[1/1] kbuild: upgrade the orphan section warning to an error if CONFIG_WERROR is set
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/450301ceb4e6

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Kees Cook