Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT pull] x86/pti updates for 4.15 | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:15:42 +0100 |
| |
On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 13:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > wrote: > > > > > > Good point. I'll queue a patch to that effect or do you just want > > to do > > that yourself? > I don't think it's critical, and I don't care for rc8, so it's not > timing-sensitive. > > Maybe David should do it as part of the "the compiler people changed > the name of the thunks" series anyway, since now I think that > RETPOLINE_CFLAGS test might want to be extended too (to see which > _version_ of the thunks we need to export). > > Or maybe we'd just export the damn thunks under both names, just to > allow people to use both versions of the compilers. > > Christ, what a mess.
No, screw that. We're updating, and there's only one version of anything. Let's not mess around with compatibility for thunk names that never made the light of day in either a GCC or a Linux (even -rc) release.
> My "let's not warn" is not important, and the thunk naming thing > should be resolved first. Gaah. > > So I think letting David worry about it sounds about right.
Thanks. :)[unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature] | |