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On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:57:16AM -0700, Roman Kiryanov wrote:
> 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.

If the kernel is at fault here and this same thing happens with GCC,
sure, but this is a clang-specific fix.

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    Boris.

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