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| From | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin |
| Date | 2017-03-28 10:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tpUcN-4ow-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Andrew Donnellan
> <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On 01/02/17 07:24, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> The kernel already has a mechanism to free up code and data memory that
>>> is only used during kernel or module initialization. This plugin will
>>> teach the compiler to find more such code and data that can be freed
>>> after initialization.
>>
>>
>> Currently checking whether we can wire this up for powerpc without too many
>> problems...
>
> Cool, thanks. FWIW, note that this plugin is a bit back-burnered at
> the moment. I've got this in my -next tree still, but it needs some
> rather large changes to how it does its annotations before Linus will
> accept it.
I've tried turning it on again a few days ago and still got too many build
problems with my randconfig tree, so I've turned it off again. I think I've
already reported most of what I found now, so I did not send out new
reports.
Arnd
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Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2017-03-27 11:40 +0200
Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-27 18:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-27 21:40 +0200
Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2017-03-27 21:40 +0200
Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-28 10:00 +0200
Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-28 21:10 +0200
Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-28 22:40 +0200
Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> - 2017-03-28 05:10 +0200
Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-03-28 21:10 +0200
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