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Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 12:46:17 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
Cc: 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 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.

Michal

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