Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Wed, 25 May 2016 10:12:17 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 0/4] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure |
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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> wrote: > On 2016-05-24 19:04, Kees Cook wrote: >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This patch set introduce the GCC plugin infrastructure with examples for testing >>> and documentation. >>> >>> GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the compiler. >>> They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. >>> >>> The infrastructure supports all gcc versions from 4.5 to 6.0, building >>> out-of-tree modules and building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation >>> is supported too but currently only the x86, arm, arm64 and uml architectures enable plugins. >>> >>> This infrastructure was ported from grsecurity/PaX. Based on work created by the PaX Team. >>> It is a CII project supported by the Linux Foundation. >>> >>> Emese Revfy (4): >>> Shared library support >>> GCC plugin infrastructure >>> Add Cyclomatic complexity plugin >>> Add sancov plugin >> >> Michal, once -rc1 is out, can you carry this for -next? > > Yes.
Awesome! Please consider it:
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
If it's any help, I have it in my tree here:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kspp/gcc-plugins/infrastructure
Thanks!
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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