Re: Hang when booting guest kernels compiled with clang after SRSO mitigations

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Aug 10 2023 - 09:32:32 EST


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 06:27:06AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> But my host kernel was compiled using GCC 13.2.0 from kernel.org for the
> sake of testing to see if the compiler used to build the host kernel had
> an impact on the problem and it did not.

Ok, now I'm confused.

Lemme see if I understand it correctly:

host kernel:
- SRSO enabled
- built with gcc

guest kernel:
- built with clang
- SRSO not necessary

Is that the scenario?

Anything else?

Thx.

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