READ_ONCE() + STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG == :/ (was Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.5-2 tag (topic/kasan-bitops))

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Wed Dec 18 05:05:53 AEDT 2019


On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 10:04 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Let me think about it.

.. and in the short term, maybe for code generation, the right thing
is to just do the cast in the bitops, where we can just cast to
"unsigned long *" and remove the volatile that way.

I'm still hoping there's a trick, but..

           Linus


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