Bug 491271 - kernel-rt should be built with -fwrapv [mrg-1.2]
Summary: kernel-rt should be built with -fwrapv [mrg-1.2]
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG
Classification: Red Hat
Component: realtime-kernel
Version: Development
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: 1.2
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Assignee: Red Hat Real Time Maintenance
QA Contact: David Sommerseth
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-20 07:43 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2016-05-22 23:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-05-25 01:47:15 UTC
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Upstream patch (1.25 KB, patch)
2009-03-20 07:44 UTC, Eugene Teo (Security Response)
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-03-20 07:43:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Add '-fwrapv' to gcc CFLAGS. This makes sure that gcc doesn't try to optimize
away wrapping arithmetic, which the kernel occasionally uses for overflow
testing, ie things like

if (ptr + offset < ptr)

which technically is undefined for non-unsigned types. See

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12597

for details.

Not all versions of gcc support it, so we need to make it conditional (it looks
like it was introduced in gcc-3.4).

This bug is filed to address the mrg-1.2 kernel. This is not a dup of bug 491264.

Comment 4 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-05-25 01:47:15 UTC
Close as per comment #3. Reopen if needed.


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