Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] add the option of fortified string.h functions

2017-05-10 Thread Michael Ellerman
Daniel Axtens writes: > Hi Daniel and ppc people, > > (ppc people: this does some compile and run time bounds checking on > string functions. It's cool - currently it picks up a lot of random > things so it will require some more work across the tree, but hopefully > it will

Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] add the option of fortified string.h functions

2017-05-09 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 09/05/17 03:57, Daniel Axtens wrote: (ppc people: this does some compile and run time bounds checking on string functions. It's cool - currently it picks up a lot of random things so it will require some more work across the tree, but hopefully it will eventually hit mainline.) Ooh, nice!

Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] add the option of fortified string.h functions

2017-05-08 Thread Kees Cook
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 03:57 +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote: >> Hi Daniel and ppc people, >> >> (ppc people: this does some compile and run time bounds checking on >> string functions. It's cool - currently it picks up a lot

Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] add the option of fortified string.h functions

2017-05-08 Thread Daniel Micay
On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 03:57 +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote: > Hi Daniel and ppc people, > > (ppc people: this does some compile and run time bounds checking on > string functions. It's cool - currently it picks up a lot of random > things so it will require some more work across the tree, but >

Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] add the option of fortified string.h functions

2017-05-08 Thread Daniel Axtens
Hi Daniel and ppc people, (ppc people: this does some compile and run time bounds checking on string functions. It's cool - currently it picks up a lot of random things so it will require some more work across the tree, but hopefully it will eventually hit mainline.) I've tested this on ppc with