ACK/cmnt: [SRU xenial/artful V2] LP#1751021 -- i386 retpoline trackers not populated
Kleber Souza
kleber.souza at canonical.com
Thu Feb 22 15:05:20 UTC 2018
On 02/22/2018 12:53 PM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We are not correctly extracting the retpoline tracker information on
> i386 leading to those being empty and thus would always pass.
>
> Fix the extractor so to handle the different mnemonics used in 32bit mode.
> Also add a checker which fires at insertchanges time to check the whole
> of the ABI. For each required element check it is present or correctly
> ignored. Finally add a specific check for the present but empty
> retpoline file and report those.
>
> Proposing for SRU to xenial and artful.
>
> -apw
>
Looks good to me. Patch 2/3 doesn't apply cleanly to xenial/master-next
debian/rules.d/1-maintainer.mk, but that can be fixed when applying it.
Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>
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