linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] kernel: add support for patchable function pointers

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Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 19:37:44 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Samuel Neves <sneves@....uc.pt>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        paulus@...ba.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, mingo@...hat.com,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] kernel: add support for patchable function pointers

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 7:29 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> (None of this is to say that I disagree with Jason, though -- I'm not
> entirely convinced that this makes sense for Zinc.  But maybe it can
> be done in a way that makes everyone happy.)

Zinc indeed will continue to push in the simpler and more minimal
direction. Down the line I'm open to trying and benching a few
different ways of going about it with dynamic patching -- something
that will be pretty easy to experiment with given the lean structure
of Zinc -- but for the initial merge I intend to do it the way it is,
which is super fast and pretty straightforward to follow.

Jason