linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 00/25] Compile-time stack metadata validation

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:18:01 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>,
	Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@...linux.so>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 00/25] Compile-time stack metadata validation


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 06:39:14AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > This is v15 of the compile-time stack metadata validation patch set,
> > along with proposed fixes for many of the warnings it found.  It's based
> > on the tip/master branch.
> 
> Ok,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> 
> With it applied, my .config gives ~1000 stacktool warnings.

That's way too high!

We should really strive for zero warnings on common configs - otherwise we'll just 
drown in the noise of warnings, and people won't notice (and won't care about) new 
warnings.

With a zero warnings baseline on a reasonable default kernel config people can 
test for new warnings.

> One of the issues that bugs me recently is adding tool-specific markers
> to unrelated code and new tools tend to love doing that. But this makes
> unrelated code ugly and people touching it shouldn't have to know about
> those tools.
> 
> I guess you could improve the analysis of vmlinux as stacktool is
> running post-compile and thus put the onus on the tool to do the right
> thing and not on the code.
> 
> But that's for the TODO.

So if we still have 1,000 warnings, then it's more than a TODO - it's more like a 
MUSTFIX! :-)

Thanks,

	Ingo