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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:19:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1447093145.2701.45.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1511091812030.3745@hadrien>

On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 18:12 +0000, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, that's tricky and I don't have an answer but marking things as
> > const is a worth while in itself because it makes static some analysis
> > easier.
> 
> I'm not clear on how to proceed here...

I think not relying on gcc plugins would be good and
would not be harmful even with a future plugin use.

So I think sending patches to add const is good.

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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:19:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1447093145.2701.45.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1511091812030.3745@hadrien>

On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 18:12 +0000, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, that's tricky and I don't have an answer but marking things as
> > const is a worth while in itself because it makes static some analysis
> > easier.
> 
> I'm not clear on how to proceed here...

I think not relying on gcc plugins would be good and
would not be harmful even with a future plugin use.

So I think sending patches to add const is good.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-09 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-08 21:34 [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures Julia Lawall
2015-11-08 21:34 ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-08 22:16 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-08 22:16   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-08 22:24   ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-08 22:24     ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09  5:42     ` [kernel-hardening] " Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09  5:42       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09  5:42       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09  6:09       ` [kernel-hardening] " Joe Perches
2015-11-09  6:09         ` Joe Perches
2015-11-09  6:09         ` Joe Perches
2015-11-09  6:39       ` [kernel-hardening] " Julia Lawall
2015-11-09  6:39         ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09  6:39         ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 13:30         ` [kernel-hardening] " Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09 13:30           ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09 18:12           ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 18:12             ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 18:19             ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-11-09 18:19               ` Joe Perches
2015-11-09 13:49       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09 13:49         ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09 14:50         ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 14:50           ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 16:39           ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09 16:39             ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-09 17:05           ` Emese Revfy
2015-11-09 17:05             ` Emese Revfy
2015-11-09 17:48             ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 17:48               ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 21:24               ` Kees Cook
2015-11-09 21:24                 ` Kees Cook
2015-11-09 21:55                 ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 21:55                   ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 23:34                   ` Kees Cook
2015-11-09 23:34                     ` Kees Cook
2015-11-10  1:24                     ` PaX Team
2015-11-10  1:24                       ` PaX Team
2015-11-10 15:44       ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-10 15:44         ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-10 15:44         ` Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 21:20   ` Kees Cook
2015-11-09 21:20     ` Kees Cook
2015-11-10  6:38     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-10  6:38       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-10 20:34       ` Kees Cook
2015-11-10 20:34         ` Kees Cook
2015-11-10 20:49         ` Joe Perches
2015-11-10 20:49           ` Joe Perches
2015-11-10 22:02           ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-10 22:02             ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-10 22:17             ` Joe Perches
2015-11-10 22:17               ` Joe Perches
2015-11-10 22:34               ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-10 22:34                 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-11-10 22:39                 ` Joe Perches
2015-11-10 22:39                   ` Joe Perches
2015-11-24 11:28 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2015-11-24 11:28   ` Tomi Valkeinen

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