On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:46 AM Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote:
Hi Borislav, thank you for a quick response. > Ok, google guys, pls make sure you Cc LKML too as this is where *all* > patches and discussions are archived. Adding it now to Cc. Thank you, I did not know this. > Ok, so why is the kernel supposed to take yet another ugly workaround > because there's a bug in the compiler? I believe the kernel makes a questionable assumption on how clang uses registers (gs will not be used if stack protection is disabled). Both kernel and clang behaves unfortunate here. > disable LTO CFI depends on LTO.