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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:29:56 +0200
From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
 Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>, pageexec@...email.hu,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Introduce the initify gcc plugin

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:02:54 +0200
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk> wrote:

> It'll get placed in multiple sections by the compiler, and nothing bad
> happens. String deduplication is something the linker does to sections
> equipped with appropriate flags. So in this case that of course means

Note that I didn't add such flags to my sections yet, but I have it on my todo list.

> that the kernel image itself would be slightly bigger, while the used
> data after init would be the same. But I don't think there's a lot of
> these cases. (Also, "initfunc" would at least vanish).

-- 
Emese

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