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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 10:04:40 +0200
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: crecklin@...hat.com, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, pabeni@...hat.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] add param that allows bootline control of hardened usercopy
Hi Kees,
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 8:44 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Christoph von Recklinghausen
> <crecklin@...hat.com> wrote:
> > The last issue I'm chasing is build failures on ARCH=m68k. The error is
> > atomic_read and friends needed by the jump label code not being found.
> > The config has CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y, so the jump label calls I added
> > will only be made #ifndef CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP. Do you think that's
> > worth a mention in the blurb that's added to
> > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt?
>
> Uhm, that's weird -- I think the configs on m68k need fixing then? I
> don't want to have to sprinkle that ifdef in generic code.
config BROKEN_ON_SMP
bool
depends on BROKEN || !SMP
default y
So BROKEN_ON_SMP=y if SMP=n, i.e. not an issue?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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