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compiler-gcc-remove-attribute-support-check-for-__no_sanitize_address__.patch removed from -mm tree

merged mm-stable Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Nov 9, 2022

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The quilt patch titled
Subject: compiler-gcc: remove attribute support check for __no_sanitize_address__
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
compiler-gcc-remove-attribute-support-check-for-__no_sanitize_address__.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
Subject: compiler-gcc: remove attribute support check for __no_sanitize_address__
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:59:53 +0200

The attribute was added in GCC 4.8, while the minimum GCC version supported by the kernel is GCC 5.1.

Therefore, remove the check.

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 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h renamed from include/linux/compiler-gcc.h~compiler-gcc-remove-attribute-support-check-for-__no_sanitize_address__ +0 -4
@@ -82,11 +82,7 @@
 #define __noscs __attribute__((__no_sanitize__("shadow-call-stack")))
 #endif
 
-#if __has_attribute(__no_sanitize_address__)
 #define __no_sanitize_address __attribute__((__no_sanitize_address__))
-#else
-#define __no_sanitize_address
-#endif
 
 #if defined(__SANITIZE_THREAD__) && __has_attribute(__no_sanitize_thread__)
 #define __no_sanitize_thread __attribute__((__no_sanitize_thread__))

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