Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

From: Daniel Micay
Date: Mon Jun 05 2017 - 09:36:31 EST


> It also probably finds more architecture-specific issues and may need
> compatibility fixes for them. I could mark it as compatible with only
> arm64 and x86(_64) since they're what I've tested to build and work at
> runtime and the compile-time errors could be turned into warnings for
> now, if it's mandatory that FORTIFY_SOURCE=y doesn't find problems at
> compile-time anywhere. If it's a warning, it will still catch the
> issue
> at runtime like the rest where the size isn't a constant.

I'm already leaving out intra-object overflow checks and the alloc_size
attributes in this initial submission to make it easier to land so
scaling it back a bit more (errors -> warnings, gating on archs) isn't a
problem if it's needed to get started.