Re: [PATCH] x86/build: Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0

From: Brian Gerst
Date: Fri Feb 21 2025 - 05:44:34 EST


On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In a similar vein as commit a3e8fe814ad1 ("x86/build: Raise the minimum
> GCC version to 8.1"), bump the minimum supported version of LLVM for
> building x86 kernels to 15.0.0, as that is the first version that has
> support for '-mstack-protector-guard-symbol', which is used
> unconditionally after commit 80d47defddc0 ("x86/stackprotector/64:
> Convert to normal per-CPU variable"):
>
> clang-14: error: unknown argument: '-mstack-protector-guard-symbol=__ref_stack_chk_guard'
>
> Fixes: 80d47defddc0 ("x86/stackprotector/64: Convert to normal per-CPU variable")
> Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/efbaad1c4a526e91b034e56386e98a9268cd87b2
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>