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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: disable clang's default use of
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To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:38:45 +0100
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On 03/21/2018 01:36 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> wrote:
>> Prasad reported that he has seen crashes in BPF subsystem with netd
>> on Android with arm64 in the form of (note, the taint is unrelated):
> 
> Ack. This looks good to me. And thanks for noticing the behavior wrt
> the correct gcc merging.
> 
>>  [ Hi Linus, feel free to take this fix directly if you want.
>>    Alternatively, we could route it via bpf tree. Thanks a
>>    lot for your feedback! ]
> 
> So since it's your patch and the only known issue comes from the bpf
> side, I think it should just go through the bpf tree, and I expect it
> to get to me through all the usual channels.

Yeah, that's fine, thanks for letting us know!

Best,
Daniel