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Message-ID: <20180705103533.GA16913@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:35:33 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 (resend) 2/6] x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the
 kernel stack at the end of syscalls


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 10:12:37AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
> > > +static inline void stackleak_task_init(struct task_struct *task)
> > > +{
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK
> > > +	task->lowest_stack = (unsigned long)end_of_stack(task) +
> > > +						sizeof(unsigned long);
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > Please don't break the line in such an ugly fashion - just keep the line long and 
> > ignore checkpatch, because the cure is worse than the disease.
> 
> FWIW I don't totally hate on:
> 
> 	task->lowest_stack =
> 		(unsigned long)end_of_stack(task) + sizeof(unsigned long);
> 
> which is a much more readable split.

Yeah, or rename 'task' to the regular 't' or 'p' and do:

	t->lowest_stack = (long)end_of_stack(t) + sizeof(long);

;-)

	Ingo

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