Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] doc: convert printk-formats.txt to rst | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:18:45 -0800 |
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On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 12:27 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 01:22:37PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Outside of the documentation, what could be useful is for > > someone to add a tool to verify %p<foo> extension to > > the typeof address actually passed as an argument. > > This sounds interesting to work no. At first glance I have no idea how > one would go about this. Some form of static analysis would be a good > place to start, right? I'd like to allocate some cycles to this, any > pointers most appreciated.
A gcc-plugin would likely work best.
There was some discussion about such a thing here: http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/02/14/38
I vaguely recall someone else doing a broader use tool which I believe was not smatch, but my google-fu isn't finding it.
It might have been coccinelle based.
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