[PATCH 2/3] ARM: Select ARCH_USES_CFI_GENERIC_LLVM_PASS

Nathan Chancellor nathan at kernel.org
Sat Oct 25 13:53:19 PDT 2025


Prior to clang 22.0.0 [1], ARM did not have an architecture specific
kCFI bundle lowering in the backend, which may cause issues. Select
CONFIG_ARCH_USES_CFI_GENERIC_LLVM_PASS to enable use of __nocfi_generic.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d130f402642fba3d065aacb506cb061c899558de [1]
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2124
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 2e3f93b690f4..4fb985b76e97 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ config ARM
 	select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
 	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
 	select ARCH_USE_MEMTEST
+	# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d130f402642fba3d065aacb506cb061c899558de
+	select ARCH_USES_CFI_GENERIC_LLVM_PASS if CLANG_VERSION < 220000
 	select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT if MMU
 	select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
 	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION

-- 
2.51.1




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