Re: [PATCH] rust: Do not export generated KASAN ODR symbols

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Wed Feb 05 2025 - 18:14:21 EST


On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Correct, I don't believe it needs to be backported. `gendwarfksyms` is
> the only in-tree tool I am aware of breaking on this. It is possible
> someone else is dumping DWARF for all exported symbols, but I don't
> know of anyone specific other than Android for kernel ABI monitoring,
> who already has this patch in-tree, and does that monitoring on
> non-ASAN builds.

Then I guess we could add a Fixes tag to one of those recent commits
(i.e. where `gendwarfksyms` is added), so that it doesn't trigger the
stable team into a backport.

But it is not a big deal -- if no recent commit really fits, I can
still apply it into `rust-fixes` without a tag.

Cheers,
Miguel