Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1
commit fad7cd33 ("nbd: add the check to prevent overflow in __nbd_ioctl()") raised an issue from the fallback helpers added in commit f0907827 ("compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and add fallback code") Specifically, the helpers for checking whether the results of a multiplication overflowed (__unsigned_mul_overflow, __signed_add_overflow) use the division operator when !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW. This is problematic for 64b operands on 32b hosts. Also, because the macro is type agnostic, it is very difficult to write a similarly type generic macro that dispatches to one of: * div64_s64 * div64_u64 * div_s64 * div_u64 Raising the minimum supported versions allows us to remove all of the fallback helpers for !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW, instead dispatching the compiler builtins. arm64 has already raised the minimum supported GCC version to 5.1, do this for all targets now. See the link below for the previous discussion. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@canb.auug.org.au/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438 Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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