[PATCH 0/5 v16] KASan for Arm

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 4:30 PM Fāng-ruì Sòng <maskray at google.com> wrote:
>
> About "ARM: Replace string mem* functions for KASan", it added .weak
> memcpy to arch/arm/lib/memcpy.S
> However, the convention is to change .weak + ENTRY(...) to WEAK(...)
>
> In particular, clang 12 will reject `.weak memcpy; .global memcpy`
> (they had different semantics in GNU as and LLVM integrated assembler
> for a long time AND binutils maintainer agreed that .weak and .global
> are strange and should not be used - though binutils will not make the
> change to cause disruption)
>
> Please see https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1190

It's straightforward for us to fixup; Fangrui has sent patches for
x86, perf, and 64b arm already which have been accepted.  I forget
though what is the convention for "Fixes:" tags for patches in -next?
The SHAs change when pulled, right?
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers