On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 5:30 AM, Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > gcc complains about fortify_panic() possibly returning: > > arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c: In function 'fortify_panic': > arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c:167:1: error: 'noreturn' function does return > [-Werror] > > This annotates the error() function as __noreturn, which lets gcc > see in all configurations that it fortify_panic() cannot return either. > > Fixes: ee333554fed5 ("ARM: 8749/1: Kconfig: Add ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE") > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> -Kees > --- > arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c > index 009db7d275f8..313a587d656b 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c > @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ unsigned int __machine_arch_type; > #include <linux/linkage.h> > > static void putstr(const char *ptr); > -extern void error(char *x); > +extern void error(char *x) __noreturn; > > #include CONFIG_UNCOMPRESS_INCLUDE > > -- > 2.9.0 > -- Kees Cook Pixel Security