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Message-ID: <20190222072652.2441e8a2@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:26:52 +1100
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, "Tobin
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] lib: Fix function documentation for
 strncpy_from_user

Hi Kees,

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:02:32 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> What I can't quite figure out yet is how to find a way for sfr to flag
> newly added users of strcpy, strncpy, and strlcpy. We might need to
> bring back __deprecated, but hide it behind a W=linux-next flag or
> something crazy. Stephen, in your builds you're already injecting
> -Wimplicit-fallthrough: do you do W=1 or anything like that? If not, I
> think we need some W= setting for your linux-next builds that generate
> the maintainer-nag warnings...

I just have a set of compiler flags that my build scripts explicitly
enable by setting KCFLAGS.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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