From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Reply-To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com From: "PaX Team" Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 15:09:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <563F5796.7439.23F9C28C@pageexec.freemail.hu> In-reply-to: <20151108092717.GH18245@li141-249.members.linode.com> References: <20151106235545.97d0e86a5f1f80c98e0e9de6@gmail.com>, <20151107054217.GA32075@x>, <20151108092717.GH18245@li141-249.members.linode.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: Proposal for kernel self protection features To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Alyssa Milburn Cc: Kees Cook , Greg KH , Emese Revfy , Brad Spengler , Theodore Tso List-ID: On 8 Nov 2015 at 9:27, Alyssa Milburn wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:42:17PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > (For that matter, as the LLVM Linux project progresses, it might > > actually prove easier to provide a clang-based plugin.) > > If anyone is interested in LLVM-based plugins (I've been assuming nobody > is, especially since LLVMLinux seems to have been pretty quiet recently), actually i originally wanted to use clang/llvm as the basis for my compiler based work, way back in 2009. it's not a coincidence that a bit later i could contribute all that code to make clang able to compile linux. while for practical reasons my interests had shifted to gcc afterwards, i still have an interest in revitalizing my work on the clang/llvm side so if you can/want to, feel free to share your work and i'll help bring it into shape. i'm also only a humble student of llvm internals so any comparative work such as ports of existing gcc plugins would be of tremendous help in getting familiar with how the clang/llvm side of the world works. cheers, PaX Team