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

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:54:46 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, 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, 2019-10-16 at 19:27 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 08:23:56AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 18:20 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:18:25PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:21:11PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > > Was there a section in the patch submission documentation to point out
> > > > > when people send patches with all the possible twists for an acronym?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't think so.
> > > > 
> > > > > This is giving me constantly gray hairs with TPM patches.
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I'm slowly getting tired of repeating the same crap over and over
> > > > again about how important it is to document one's changes and to write
> > > > good commit messages. The most repeated answers I'm simply putting into
> > > > canned reply templates because, well, saying it once or twice is not
> > > > enough anymore. :-\
> > > > 
> > > > And yeah, I see your pain. Same here, actually.
> > > > 
> > > > In the acronym case, I'd probably add a regex to my patch massaging
> > > > script and convert those typos automatically and be done with it.
> > > 
> > > Wonder if checkpatch.pl could be extended to know acronyms e.g. have a
> > > db of known acronyms.
> > 
> > ?  examples please.
> > 
> > checkpatch has a db for misspellings, I supposed another for
> > acronyms could be added, but how would false positives be avoided?
> 
> TPM should be always TPM, e.g. not tpm. EFI should be always, e.g.
> not efi.

I think it's not possible to distinguish between
proper and improper uses.  For instance:

$ git grep -w tpm | wc -l
328
$ git grep -w TPM | wc -l
566

$ git grep -w efi | wc -l
851
$ git grep -w EFI | wc -l
915