Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:03:07 -0700 | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v5 1/4] gcc-plugins: Add the initify gcc plugin |
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:49 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > 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.
Hrm, with what's in -next? That's too bad. I thought everything you reported had been fixed. Dang. :(
-Kees
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