On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Kees Cook wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Emese Revfy wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:50:47 +0000 (GMT) >> >> Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > > Actually, it looks like Emese Revfy is going to merge the GCC plugin >> >> > > constify stuff sooner rather than later so maybe adding all these consts >> >> > > isn't going to be needed. >> >> > >> >> > Is there any advantage of const over the plugin? The consts are easy to >> >> > add. >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I think it's a very good advantage that the plugin constifies automatically >> >> without regular maintenance (e.g., generate patches with coccinelle, >> >> send patches to the maintainers every new kernel version). ;) >> >> But if it doesn't convince you, I did constification by hand (with a coccinelle >> >> script) some years ago. >> >> There are too many types that can be const and it took too long to prepare and >> >> get the maintainers to accept the patches. >> >> And it never ends as there are always new types that can be const. >> > >> > What happens if some structures cannot be made const because there is a >> > reassignment somewhere? Is there any feedback about the problem? >> >> AIUI, for now, we can't make those const (though I would be happy to >> be corrected). My hope would be to allow reassignment using something >> like PaX's kernel_open/kernel_close inlines to allow for temporary >> modification of read-only things (as part of the KERNEXEC feature). > > What I was more wondering was whether there is any feedback about the > situation? My plan is to help get the PaX constification plugin into the upstream kernel. We'll know more about the feedback on that when it gets attempted (hopefully in the coming weeks). -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
