Re: [RFC PATCH v2 14/21] treewide: Drop __cficanonical

[Sami Tolvanen]

On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 2:56 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 01:21:52PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > CONFIG_CFI_CLANG doesn't use a jump table anymore and therefore,
> > won't change function references to point elsewhere. Remove the
> > __cficanonical attribute and all uses of it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/compiler_types.h | 4 ----
> >  include/linux/init.h           | 4 ++--
> >  include/linux/pci.h            | 4 ++--
> >  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> I think this is missing removing it from include/linux/compiler-clang.h ?

That was removed in the earlier patch that switched the CFI implementation.

> With that done (or explained why not):

I'll add a note about it to the commit message.

Sami