Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2017 19:19:27 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 10:00 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > Oh! So it's gcc-version sensitive? That's alarming. Is this mapping correct: > > 4.8.5: WARN, eventual kernel hang > 6.3.1, 7.0.1: WARN, but continues working
Yeah, that's correct. I find that troubling, simply because this gcc version has been through one hell of a lot of kernels with me. Yeah, I know, that doesn't exempt it from having bugs, but color me suspicious.
-Mike
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