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Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 10:12:17 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>, linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>, Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/4] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com> wrote:
> On 2016-05-24 19:04, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.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@...omium.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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