linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: re-implement detection of CONFIG options leaked to user-space

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Date:   Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:35:06 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: re-implement detection of CONFIG options
 leaked to user-space

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 6:00 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 6:38 AM Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was playing with sed yesterday, but the resulted code might be unreadable.
> >
> > Sed scripts tend to be somewhat unreadable.
> > I just wondered which language is appropriate for this?
> > Maybe perl, or what else? I am not good at perl, though.
>
> I like the sed version, in particular as it seems to do the job and
> I'm not volunteering to write it in anything else.
>
> > Maybe, it will be better to fix existing warnings
> > before enabling this check.
>
> Yes, absolutely.
>
> > If somebody takes a closer look at them, that would be great.
>
> Let's see:

Thanks for looking into these!

If possible, could you please send patches to fix them?
We can start with low-hanging fruits to reduce the number of warnings.

Thank you.

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada