linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 00/10] lib/string

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Message-ID: <87o6yjyqeb.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 23:16:48 +0000
From: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] lib/string_choices: Add new helpers

Hi Kees

Thank you for your feedback

> > I would like to use string_choices helper to cleanup the code, but it missing
> > some of well used string pair in kernel. This patch-set adds it.
> 
> Do you have some Coccinelle scripts or other patches that show the use
> of these helpers? We tend to avoid adding new helpers to the kernel
> unless there are active uses of them.

I have a lot of patches which uses new helper functions.
Because it has dependency (add new helper 1st, use it in 2nd), and
different maintainers (helper patch maintainers vs each driver/framwork
maintainers), I have posted new helper patch-set 1st (= this patch-set).
After that, I will post 2nd patch-set which uses new helper, like
new helper patch for v6.15, each driver/framework patch for v6.16, etc.

Because there are a lot of patches which uses new helpers, is it OK to
indicates some of them (as sample patch) ?

# It is still under compile-test on each architecture

Thank you for your help !!

Best regards
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Kuninori Morimoto