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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:14:17 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, 
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, 
	David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>, Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>, 
	linux-input <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>, linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> Kees - is there some online "gcc-4.4 checker" somewhere? This does
>> seem to work with my gcc. I actually tested some of those files you
>> pointed at now.
>
> I use this one:
>
>   https://godbolt.org/

Well, my *test* code works on that one and -Wvla -Werror.

It does not work with gcc-4.1.x, but works with gcc-4.4.x.

I can't seem to see the errors any way, I wonder if
__builtin_choose_expr() simply didn't exist back then.

Odd that you can't view warnings/errors with it.

But it's possible that it fails on more complex stuff in the kernel.

I've done a "allmodconfig" build with that patch, and the only issue
it found was that (real) type issue in tpm_tis_core.h.

                Linus

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