Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1

On Sun, 17 May 2026 13:05:03 -1000, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1
> 
> The current minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel is 15.0.0.
> However, there are two deficiencies compared to GCC that were fixed in
> LLVM 17 that are starting to become more noticeable.
> 
> The first was a bug in LLVM's scope checker [1], where all labels in a
> function were validated as potential targets of an asm goto statement,
> even if they were not listed in the asm goto statement as targets. This
> becomes particularly problematic when the cleanup attribute is used, as
> 
> [...]

Applied to

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux.git kbuild-next

Thanks!

[01/16] kbuild: Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/ce3267a39a92b
[02/16] security/Kconfig.hardening: Remove tautological condition from CC_HAS_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/813fe686e90b4
[03/16] security/Kconfig.hardening: Remove tautological condition from FORTIFY_SOURCE
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/8ad2017578c99
[04/16] security/Kconfig.hardening: Remove tautological condition from CC_HAS_RANDSTRUCT
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/9331258bc129a
[05/16] arch/Kconfig: Remove tautological conditions from HAS_LTO_CLANG
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/2189cb1a80f06
[06/16] arch/Kconfig: Remove tautological condition from AUTOFDO_CLANG
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/de0bf1e138fcd
[07/16] ARM: Drop tautological ld.lld conditions from ARCH_MULTI_V4{,T}
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/48d229b6a48ae
[08/16] riscv: Remove tautological condition from selection of ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/62c4af8689511
[09/16] riscv: Drop tautological condition from TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/7e279976cf2a2
[10/16] scripts/Makefile.warn: Drop -Wformat handling for clang < 16
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/2a35c63c6bc42
[11/16] x86/build: Drop unnecessary '-ffreestanding' addition to KBUILD_CFLAGS
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/7b3281fcb43c5
[12/16] x86/module: Revert "Deal with GOT based stack cookie load on Clang < 17"
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/12b7bf92bddd4
[13/16] x86/entry/vdso32: Remove conditional omission of '.cfi_offset eflags'
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/4e7af20d0d104
[14/16] kbuild: Remove check for broken scoping with clang < 17 in CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/f3de78cb19d12
[15/16] compiler-clang.h: Remove __cleanup -Wunused-variable workaround
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/c69eaa687667e
[16/16] compiler-clang.h: Drop explicit version number from "all" diagnostic macro
        https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/c919893eabb43

Please look out for regression or issue reports or other follow up
comments, as they may result in the patch/series getting dropped or
reverted. Patches applied to an "unstable" branch are accepted pending
wider testing in -next and any post-commit review; they will generally
be moved to the main branch in a week if no issues are found.

Best regards,
-- 
Cheers,
Nathan