[kernel-hardening] RE: [RFC v4 PATCH 03/13] kernel: identify wrapping atomic usage

["Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:24:38PM +0200, Elena Reshetova wrote:
>  include/linux/blktrace_api.h         |   2 +-
>  include/linux/irqdesc.h              |   2 +-
>  include/linux/kgdb.h                 |   2 +-
>  include/linux/padata.h               |   2 +-
>  include/linux/perf_event.h           |  10 ++--
>  include/linux/sched.h                |   2 +-
>  kernel/audit.c                       |   8 +--
>  kernel/auditsc.c                     |   4 +-
>  kernel/debug/debug_core.c            |  16 +++---
>  kernel/events/core.c                 |  27 +++++-----
>  kernel/irq/manage.c                  |   2 +-
>  kernel/irq/spurious.c                |   2 +-
>  kernel/locking/lockdep.c             |   2 +-

>That's it for kernel/locking/ ? So qspinlock really needs the overflow tests?
>Colour me less than impressed with the quality of audit.

The subsystem changes haven't been yet audited on a wider scale and I am sure there are more things to catch.
The intend was to make more audits later and also include each subsystem maintainers for reviews.
To date our primary focus was on getting the approach working/looking less invasive, which wasn't really easy given amount of changes it requires in atomic...

>  kernel/padata.c                      |   4 +-
>  kernel/profile.c                     |  14 ++---
>  kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c              |  61 ++++++++++-----------
>  kernel/rcu/tree.c                    |  36 +++++++------
>  kernel/rcu/tree.h                    |  18 ++++---
>  kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h                |   6 +--
>  kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h             |  12 ++---
>  kernel/rcu/tree_trace.c              |  14 ++---
>  kernel/sched/auto_group.c            |   4 +-
>  kernel/time/timer_stats.c            |  11 ++--
>  kernel/trace/blktrace.c              |   6 +--
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c                |   4 +-
>  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c           | 100 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  kernel/trace/trace_clock.c           |   4 +-
>  kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c |   4 +-
>  kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c       |   8 +--
>  29 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-)