Re: [PATCH v9 0/4] Introduce GCC plugin infrastructure

Kees Cook
2016-06-07T21:00:01Z

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> wrote:
> Dne 25.5.2016 v 19:12 Kees Cook napsal(a):
>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> wrote:
>>> On 2016-05-24 19:04, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> 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, arm64 and uml architectures enable plugins.
>>>>>
>>>>> This infrastructure was ported from grsecurity/PaX. Based on work created by the PaX Team.
>>>>> It is a CII project supported by the Linux Foundation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Emese Revfy (4):
>>>>> Shared library support
>>>>> GCC plugin infrastructure
>>>>> Add Cyclomatic complexity plugin
>>>>> Add sancov plugin
>>>>
>>>> Michal, once -rc1 is out, can you carry this for -next?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> Awesome! Please consider it:
>>
>> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> I applied the series to kbuild.git#kbuild now, sorry for the delay.

Awesome! Thank you very much. I'll prepare the latent entropy plugin
for -next now too.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security