On Tue, 24 May 2016 10:32:15 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, does this matter that it's non-atomic? It seems like the u64 > below is being written to by multiple threads and even read by > multiple threads. Am I misunderstanding something? The non-atomic accesses are intentional because they can extract more latent entropy from these data races. > > [...] > > new file mode 100644 > > index 0000000..7295c39 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c > > I feel like most of the functions in this plugin could use some more > comments about what each one does. I think the important parts are commented (most parts just use the gcc API). Where would you like more comments? -- Emese -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
