Re: [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2

2019-07-31 Thread Alexander Potapenko
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:54 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:53 AM Alexander Potapenko wrote: > > > > I wonder how hard it should be to make a zero-filling GCC plugin? > > I'm not a big fan of hacking GCC, but it shouldn't differ much from > > the existing GCC plugins that

Re: [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2

2019-07-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:53 AM Alexander Potapenko wrote: > > I wonder how hard it should be to make a zero-filling GCC plugin? > I'm not a big fan of hacking GCC, but it shouldn't differ much from > the existing GCC plugins that initialize locals. The thing is, as long as it's a plugin, I

Re: [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2

2019-07-30 Thread Alexander Potapenko
Hi Kees, Linus, On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:16 AM Kees Cook wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:21 PM Kees Cook wrote: > > > > > > Please pull this meminit fix for v5.3-rc2. > > > > Side noe: I find "meminit" a confusing

Re: [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2

2019-07-28 Thread Kees Cook
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:21 PM Kees Cook wrote: > > > > Please pull this meminit fix for v5.3-rc2. > > Side noe: I find "meminit" a confusing description for the structleak > thing. When I hear it, it sounds like some generic

Re: [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2

2019-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:43 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Side note: I find "meminit" a confusing description for the structleak > thing. Not that 'structleak' is all that much better, because it's not necessarily just about structs either. 'stack variable initialization' is too long. I dunno.

Re: [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2

2019-07-28 Thread pr-tracker-bot
The pull request you sent on Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:21:34 -0700: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git > tags/meminit-v5.3-rc2 has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/c622fc5f54cb0c7ea2e6fedba27ba533b97657d8 Thank you! --

Re: [GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2

2019-07-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:21 PM Kees Cook wrote: > > Please pull this meminit fix for v5.3-rc2. Side noe: I find "meminit" a confusing description for the structleak thing. When I hear it, it sounds like some generic memory initialization thing in the VM layer (which we obviously do also have),

[GIT PULL] meminit fix for v5.3-rc2

2019-07-28 Thread Kees Cook
Hi Linus, Please pull this meminit fix for v5.3-rc2. This is late in the -rc2 window because I got confused about whether I or akpm was taking this patch. I noticed it still wasn't in -mm, so here it is. It's a small Kconfig change that fixes a bunch of build warnings under KASAN and the