Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752683AbbHOHXl (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Aug 2015 03:23:41 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36968 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751185AbbHOHXk (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Aug 2015 03:23:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 00:23:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek , Peter Zijlstra , Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Pedro Alves , Namhyung Kim , Bernd Petrovitsch , "Chris J Arges" , live-patching@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 03/20] x86/stackvalidate: Compile-time stack validation Message-Id: <20150815002354.7fb2f21e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <07bf51833b5e1c52bfd9a4dbda41b80c508dffff.1439521412.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com> References: <07bf51833b5e1c52bfd9a4dbda41b80c508dffff.1439521412.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 21 On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 22:10:24 -0500 Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > This adds a CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option which enables a host tool > named stackvalidate which runs at compile time. It would be useful to - show example output for a typical error site - describe the consequences of that error (ie: why should we fix these things?) - describe what needs to be done to repair these sites. IOW, what do we gain from merging all this stuff? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/