linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: never relocate kernel below lowest acceptable address

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Message-ID: <20191016154842.GJ1138@zn.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:48:42 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kairui Song <kasong@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Garrett <matthewgarrett@...gle.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: never relocate kernel below lowest
 acceptable address

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 08:23:56AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> ?  examples please.

>From this very thread:

\sEfi\s, \sefi\s, \seFI\s etc should be "EFI"

I'm thinking perhaps start conservatively and catch the most often
misspelled ones in commit messages or comments. "CPU", "SMT", "MCE",
"MCA", "PCI" etc come to mind.

> checkpatch has a db for misspellings, I supposed another for
> acronyms could be added,

Doesn't have to be another one - established acronyms are part of the
dictionary too.

> but how would false positives be avoided?

Perhaps delimited with spaces or non-word chars (\W) and when they're
part of a comment or the commit message...

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    Boris.

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