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From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:21:25 -0700
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Subject: Re: Dangerous addr to ctrl dependency transformation in fs/nfs/delegation.c::nfs_server_return_marked_delegations()?
To:     =?UTF-8?Q?Paul_Heidekr=C3=BCger?= <paul.heidekrueger@in.tum.de>
Cc:     Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
        llvm@lists.linux.dev, Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
        Charalampos Mainas <charalampos.mainas@gmail.com>,
        Pramod Bhatotia <pramod.bhatotia@in.tum.de>,
        "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 8:22 AM Paul Heidekr=C3=BCger
<paul.heidekrueger@in.tum.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> work on my dependency checker tool is progressing nicely, and it is
> flagging, what I believe is, a harmful addr to ctrl dependency
> transformation. For context, see [1] and [2]. I'm using the Clang
> compiler.
> [1]: https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/821/attachments/=
598/1075/LPC_2020_--_Dependency_ordering.pdf
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/YXknxGFjvaB46d%2Fp@Pauls-MacBook-Pro/T/=
#u

Hi Paul,
Thanks for the report and your (and your team's) work on this tool.
Orthogonal to your report, Jose (cc'ed) and I are currently in the
planning process to put together a Kernel+Toolchain microconference
track at Linux Plumbers Conference [0] this year (Sept 12-14) in
Dublin, Ireland.  Would you or someone from your group be able and
interested in presenting more information about your work to an
audience of kernel and toolchain developers at such an event?

Would others be interested in such a topic? (What do they say in
Starship Troopers...?...Would you like to know more?)

[0] https://lpc.events/event/16/
--=20
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers