linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 05/16] kgr: update Kconfig documentation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 03 May 2014 07:32:03 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Udo Seidel <udoseidel@....de>
Subject: Re: [RFC 05/16] kgr: update Kconfig documentation

On 04/30/2014 07:30 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> This is based on Udo's text which were augmented in this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> Cc: Udo Seidel <udoseidel@....de>
> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>
> ---
>   kernel/Kconfig.kgr | 3 +++
>   samples/Kconfig    | 4 ++++
>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.kgr b/kernel/Kconfig.kgr
> index af9125f27b6d..f66fa2c20656 100644
> --- a/kernel/Kconfig.kgr
> +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.kgr
> @@ -5,3 +5,6 @@ config KGR
>   	tristate "Kgr infrastructure"
>   	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
>   	depends on HAVE_KGR
> +	help
> +	 Select this to enable kGraft online kernel patching. The
> +	 runtime price is zero, so it is safe to say Y here.

Please indent help text 2 spaces instead of 1 to be consistent and to
follow CodingStyle.

Also, I would prefer that this feature be referred to as kgraft (with
any capital letters that you prefer) instead of kgr.
kgr is too meaningless to me.

> diff --git a/samples/Kconfig b/samples/Kconfig
> index a923510443de..29eba4b77812 100644
> --- a/samples/Kconfig
> +++ b/samples/Kconfig
> @@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ config SAMPLE_KDB
>   config SAMPLE_KGR_PATCHER
>   	tristate "Build kgr patcher example -- loadable modules only"
>   	depends on KGR && m
> +	help
> +	 Sample code to replace sys_iopl() and sys_capable() via
> +	 kGraft. This is only for presentation purposes. It is safe to
> +	 say Y here.
>
>   config SAMPLE_RPMSG_CLIENT
>   	tristate "Build rpmsg client sample -- loadable modules only"
>


-- 
~Randy
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/