linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Compile-time stack validation

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Message-ID: <20150715101627.GA21770@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:16:28 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Pedro Alves <palves@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Compile-time stack validation


* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:14:06PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > Posting a listing of reported warnings in a reply to this email.
> 
> These are the reported stackvalidate warnings on tip/master with my Fedora-based 
> config.  There were 1399 warnings in 26 .c files and 16 .S files.  It was mostly 
> repeat warnings so I removed a lot of the repeats to keep it short.

Are most of these warnings legit, what's the false positive rate in your 
impression?

You might want to start fixing a few typical types, just to see what it involves 
exactly and whether we want to fix it that way.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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