Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 2021 16:11:09 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rapidio: Avoid bogus __alloc_size warning |
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On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 15:51:23 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > That's an "error", not a warning. Or is this thanks to the new -Werror? > > This is a "regular" error (__bad_copy_to() uses __compiletime_error()). > > > Either way, I'm inclined to cc:stable on this, because use of gcc-9 on > > older kernels will be a common thing down the ages. > > > > If it's really an "error" on non-Werror kernels then definitely cc:stable. > > I would expect that as only being needed if __alloc_size was backported > to -stable, which seems unlikely.
Ah. Changelog didn't tell me that it's an __alloc_size thing.
What's the status of the __alloc_size() patchset, btw?
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