Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f49.google.com ([209.85.214.49]:42670 "EHLO mail-it0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030571AbdKRF3R (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:29:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <40ad7c6e-f0d7-959a-bf29-d3e3843f5d31@gentoo.org> <23f7da04-95f7-24e7-ee70-ce40c5b8fee3@gentoo.org> <67939ef3-29c6-762c-7afe-46cc69630d95@gentoo.org> <3d948180-6bd7-c4e9-5ac8-5baef9cc15a7@gentoo.org> <09f2480f-e8e8-645b-6d94-b6ae4ca47806@gentoo.org> <242b16cd-056a-1499-2b65-69084dac1d8d@gentoo.org> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 21:29:15 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11 To: Kees Cook Cc: Patrick McLean , Emese Revfy , Al Viro , Bruce Fields , "Darrick J. Wong" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux NFS Mailing List , stable , Thorsten Leemhuis , "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > > FWIW, myself doing a build at d9e12200852d with and without > GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT _appears_ to produce identical objdump output > where I did spot-checks. That would probably be a good thing to check anyway - check the difference between GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT on and off at that commit. Just do objdump --disassemble vmlinux > file and compare the two files for where the differences start occurring. Linus