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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:40:11 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Cc: Michael Leibowitz <michael.leibowitz@...el.com>, 
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>, 
	PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>, "Schaufler, Casey" <casey.schaufler@...el.com>, 
	"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the randstruct gcc plugin

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net> wrote:
> Just curious:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=kspp/gcc-plugin/randstruct&id=cd7686ee26b839ad5e0467ac2162b360bf1fa673
>
> "These were found using allyesconfig on x86, arm, and arm64."
>
> Who found them, and whose code is all that?
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=kspp/gcc-plugin/randstruct&id=6dd5fff4a626c8db8800d76f5096f6efcd2a675f
>
> Who decided on these, whose code is it?
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=kspp/gcc-plugin/randstruct&id=7169767228cd6d117a0908997d9a3b38bfb6a1b9
>
> Ditto -- did you spend the hours to figure the ARM hunk out?  I only see your
> name there.
>
> Show the world you can do something more than plagiarize code.  This is the
> third time I'm having to warn you guys collectively about this.  How hard
> is it to not plagiarize?

I already said the commit logs needed work. I think I have a
reasonable track record giving you and PaX Team credit for things --
this isn't the final version by a long shot. I wanted to give Michael
something to work from before the weekend got here.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security

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