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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about strings of string_choices.h
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:29:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202502241928.4405326B13@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eczmssrp.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 01:43:55AM +0000, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
> 
> Hi Kees, Andy
> 
> I would like to use string_choices helper, and want to add well used
> but not yet supported strings. But before that I would like to ask one
> thing about it.
> 
> I wonder is it guaranteed that the strings were persist after the
> function returned ? In normally, function local variable will disappear
> when it returns from the function. But I'm not sure in case of
> static inline const, etc.
> 
> If it is guaranteed, I'm very happy.

Yes, the compiler puts them in the .rodata section, so they will always
be present.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-25  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-25  1:43 Question about strings of string_choices.h Kuninori Morimoto
2025-02-25  3:29 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2025-02-25  3:40   ` Kuninori Morimoto

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