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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:13:52 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>, 
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>, 
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, 
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>, linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, 
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, bart.vanassche@...disk.com, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] Add the latent_entropy gcc plugin

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 08:41:19PM +0200, Emese Revfy wrote:
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,639 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright 2012-2016 by the PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>
>> + * Copyright 2016 by Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
>> + * Licensed under the GPL v2
>> + *
>> + * Note: the choice of the license means that the compilation process is
>> + *       NOT 'eligible' as defined by gcc's library exception to the GPL v3,
>> + *       but for the kernel it doesn't matter since it doesn't link against
>> + *       any of the gcc libraries
>
> I remember we used to have architectures that actually linked against
> libgcc.  Isn't that the case anymore?

There are a few, but they don't (and won't) select HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security

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