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security/Kconfig.hardening: Remove tautological condition from FORTIFY_SOURCE
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Sun, 17 May 2026 23:05:06 +0000 (13:05 -1000)
committerNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 27 May 2026 22:20:04 +0000 (15:20 -0700)
Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been raised to 17.0.1, the '!X86_32 || !Clang || Clang > 16'
dependency of CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE is always true, so it can be
removed.

Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517-bump-minimum-supported-llvm-version-to-17-v2-3-b3b8cda46bdd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
security/Kconfig.hardening

index 4ab19f658bde56e1ae1426cc0450ebdb7aff5393..364c2ff553f65fedb748a82bd3452d1587e6849f 100644 (file)
@@ -214,8 +214,6 @@ menu "Bounds checking"
 config FORTIFY_SOURCE
        bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows"
        depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
-       # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53645
-       depends on !X86_32 || !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION >= 160000
        help
          Detect overflows of buffers in common string and memory functions
          where the compiler can determine and validate the buffer sizes.