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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: "Sami Tolvanen" <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	"Arvind Sankar" <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
	"Sedat Dilek" <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	"Fangrui Song" <maskray@google.com>,
	"Joe Perches" <joe@perches.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Dávid Bolvanský" <david.bolvansky@gmail.com>,
	"Eli Friedman" <efriedma@quicinc.com>,
	"# 3.4.x" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Vishal Verma" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
	"Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	"Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	"Daniel Axtens" <dja@axtens.net>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Yury Norov" <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
	"Alexandru Ardelean" <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	"Rasmus Villemoes" <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	"Nathan Chancellor" <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 12:15:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202008171213.CBCFF5D67@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOd=Ns4_+amT8P-7yQ56xUdDmL=1zDUThF-OmFKhexhJPdg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 11:36:49AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> That said, this libcall optimization/transformation (sprintf->stpcpy)
> does look useful to me.  Kees, do you have thoughts on me providing
> the implementation without exposing it in a header vs using
> -fno-builtin-stpcpy?  (I would need to add the missing EXPORT_SYMBOL,
> as pointed out by 0day bot and on the github thread).  I don't care
> either way; I'd just like your input before sending a V+1.  Maybe
> better to just not implement it and never implement it?

I think I would ultimately prefer -fno-builtin-stpcpy, but for now,
sure, an implementation without a header (and a biiig comment above it
detailing why and a reference to the bug) would be fine by me.

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-17 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-15  0:24 [PATCH] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-15  0:52 ` Joe Perches
2020-08-15  2:00   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-15  0:53 ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-08-15  1:33 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-15  1:40   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-15  2:09     ` [PATCH v2] " Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-15  2:58       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-15  3:42       ` Joe Perches
2020-08-15 16:34       ` Kees Cook
2020-08-15 17:38         ` Dávid Bolvanský
2020-08-15 20:47         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-15 21:23           ` Joe Perches
2020-08-15 21:27             ` Dávid Bolvanský
2020-08-15 21:28             ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-15 21:31               ` Joe Perches
2020-08-15 22:17                 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-16  0:19                   ` Fangrui Song
2020-08-16  5:22                     ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-16 15:02                       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-17 17:14                         ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-08-17 18:36                           ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-17 19:15                             ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-08-17 20:13                             ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-17 21:45                               ` Nick Desaulniers
     [not found]                             ` <77557c29286140dea726cc334b4f59fc@AcuMS.aculab.com>
2020-08-18  8:32                               ` Joe Perches
2020-08-17 19:16                           ` Kees Cook
2020-08-16  7:44       ` kernel test robot
2020-08-15  2:00   ` [PATCH] " Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-15 22:17 ` David Laight

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