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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:27:52 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>, Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:46 AM, David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:10:23PM +0200, Emese Revfy 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 and arm64 architectures
>> enables plugins.
>>
>> This infrastructure was ported from grsecurity/PaX. It is a CII project
>> supported by the Linux Foundation.
>>
>> Emese Revfy (6):
>> Shared library support
>> GCC plugin infrastructure
>> The GCC plugin infrastructure supports the arm and arm64 architectures too
>> Add Cyclomatic complexity plugin
>> Documentations of the GCC plugin infrastructre
>> Add sancov plugin
>
>
> I've tested the v6 patches on arm, and partially on arm64. The arm64
> gcc has a bug in make install that doesn't install all necessary
> headers to build plugins. I believe the patch will work once that
> version gets out. It does, however, print a helpful message now
> explaining the likely cause of the failure.
>
> Tested-by: David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>
Awesome! Thanks for testing this. I still need to finish getting my
arm64 environment built...
Do you happen to know if there's already a gcc bug open for the make
install problem?
Masahiro and Michal, does this series look good to you? I'd really
like to get this into -next for wider testing.
Emese, were you thinking of doing the initify plugin next after this
infrastructure lands?
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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