Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] set clang minimum version to 10.0.1

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Sep 01 2020 - 16:01:32 EST


On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:23:19PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Adds a compile time #error to compiler-clang.h setting the effective
> minimum supported version to clang 10.0.1. A separate patch has already
> been picked up into the Documentation/ tree also confirming the version.
>
> Next are a series of reverts. One for 32b arm is a partial revert.
>
> Then Marco suggested fixes to KASAN docs.
>
> Finally, improve the warning for GCC too as per Kees.
> [...]
> 8 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

A nice simplification!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

(I do note that for Ubuntu 20.04, they're going to need to do an LLVM
10.0.0 -> 10.0.1 bump to do kernel builds for their latest LTS...)

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Kees Cook