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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:56:55 -0500
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>, 
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, 
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...roid.com>, 
	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, 
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>, Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>, 
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, 
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>, 
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] security: Create "kernel hardening" config area

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:55 AM Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
>
> On 16.04.2019 7:02, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:44 AM Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What do you think about some separator between memory initialization options and
> >> CONFIG_CRYPTO?
> >
> > This was true before too
>
> Hm, yes, it's a generic behavior - there is no any separator at 'endmenu' and
> config options stick together.
>
> I've created a patch to fix that. What do you think about it?
> I can send it to LKML separately.
>
>
> From 50bf59d30fafcdebb3393fb742e1bd51e7d2f2da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:09:40 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kconfig: Terminate menu blocks with a newline in the
>  generated config
>
> Currently menu blocks start with a pretty header but end with nothing in
> the generated config. So next config options stick together with the
> options from the menu block.
>
> Let's terminate menu blocks with a newline in the generated config.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> index 08ba146..1459153 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> @@ -888,6 +888,8 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
>                 if (menu->next)
>                         menu = menu->next;
>                 else while ((menu = menu->parent)) {
> +                       if (!menu->sym && menu_is_visible(menu))
> +                               fprintf(out, "\n");
>                         if (menu->next) {
>                                 menu = menu->next;
>                                 break;

Seems fine to me. I defer to Masahiro, though. :)

-- 
Kees Cook

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