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

From: Daniel Micay
Date: Wed Jun 14 2017 - 22:12:09 EST


On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 12:04 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:58:42 -0400 Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> >
> > They're false positive warnings. I think objtool has a list of
> > __noreturn functions and needs fortify_panic added there. It's just
> > a
> > warning so it doesn't need to happen immediately.
>
> There are *lots* of them, so it does need to be fixed (Linus will be
> very irritated if it hits his tree like that). Create a patch to
> objtool and get the x86 guys to Ack it?

Okay, I'll send a patch. It turns out that it's very straightforward.

c1fad9ef7ed14aad464972e6444e7a3bd5670f26 is an example of an earlier
one.