Re: [GIT PULL] hardening updates for v6.5-rc1

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jun 29 2023 - 03:26:01 EST


On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 09:29:42AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > will be completely misued before we have a compiler actually supporting
> > available widely enough that we have it in the usual test bots.
>
> How do you see it being misused? Your mention of the test bots, I think,
> means you're worried the annotations will go unchecked for valid syntax?

Exactly.

> FWIW, I've got builders with the GCC and Clang patches that should catch
> this.

Are we going to get them wired up for automatic checks somewhere?