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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 17:53:31 +0530
From: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@...il.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: willing to involve in KSPP
Hi Kees,
> > I'm Shyam, currently working in linux kernel and embedded domain.
> >
> > I'm interested work in Kernel Self Protection Project.
> >
> > Would you please suggest which task should i pick ?
> >
> > I'd like to pick some simple task to get started.
> > I see a list of todo [1] but this page is not updated since 31st October
>
> I've updated this list now. Sorry for the delay!
Thanks for this update.
> > I don't have much experience in linux kernel so I'm not sure to pick which particular task, please suggest me some task.
>
> One item on there that looks pretty simple and would get you started
> would be to regularized the use of three different macros that all do
> the same thing: replace sizeof_field() and SIZEOF_FIELD() with the
> more common FIELD_SIZEOF()
>
> $ git grep '\bsizeof_field\b' | wc -l
> 30
These are spreaded all over kernel source tree.
> $ git grep '\bSIZEOF_FIELD\b' | wc -l
> 2
This was added recently and I think we will need a checkpatch entry to
warn developers about this.
> $ git grep '\bFIELD_SIZEOF\b' | wc -l
> 291
>
> Which likely means moving the FIELD_SIZEOF macro into
> include/linux/stddef.h for reuse in offsetofend().
My only concern is, if it picked by different maintainers then it may
break some other trees.
I think it should be picked by single maintainer so which tree should
I submit these changes ?
Thanks a lot,
Shyam
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