linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] lib: Fix function documentation for strncpy_from

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Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:16:14 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] lib: Fix function documentation for strncpy_from_user

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:27 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Kees,
>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:02:32 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > What I can't quite figure out yet is how to find a way for sfr to flag
> > newly added users of strcpy, strncpy, and strlcpy. We might need to
> > bring back __deprecated, but hide it behind a W=linux-next flag or
> > something crazy. Stephen, in your builds you're already injecting
> > -Wimplicit-fallthrough: do you do W=1 or anything like that? If not, I
> > think we need some W= setting for your linux-next builds that generate
> > the maintainer-nag warnings...
>
> I just have a set of compiler flags that my build scripts explicitly
> enable by setting KCFLAGS.

Okay, so you could include some -D option to enable it. I'll see if I
can cook something up.

-- 
Kees Cook