From: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
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Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] Remove uninitialized_var() macro
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:07:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+icZUV-gBgUnrm6pF2MHWC2SnK_ZBatAa9VrEJ2VbdARi1YBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202006200854.B2D8F21@keescook>
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:57 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 09:03:34AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:30 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > v2:
> > > - more special-cased fixes
> > > - add reviews
> > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603233203.1695403-1-keescook@chromium.org
> > >
> > > Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
> > > (or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
> > > (e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
> > > either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.
> > >
> > > As recommended[2] by[3] Linus[4], remove the macro.
> > >
> > > Most of the 300 uses don't cause any warnings on gcc 9.3.0, so they're in
> > > a single treewide commit in this series. A few others needed to actually
> > > get cleaned up, and I broke those out into individual patches.
> > >
> > > The tree is:
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kspp/uninit/macro
> > >
> > > -Kees
> > >
> >
> > Hi Kees,
> >
> > thanks for doing a v2 of your patchset.
> >
> > As I saw Jason Yan providing some "uninitialized_var() macro" patches
> > to the MLs I pointen him to your tree "v1".
>
> Thanks!
>
> > BTW, I have tested your "v1" against Linux v5.7 (see [1]) - just
> > yesterday with Linux v5.7.5-rc1.
> >
> > Is it possible to have a v2 of this patchset on top od Linux v5.7 - if
> > you do not mind.
>
> Since it's only going to be for post-v5.8, I'm fine skipping the v5.7
> testing. Mainly I'm looking at v5.8 and linux-next.
>
> Thanks for looking at it!
>
Thanks for the feedback.
"I knew you'd say that."
( Judge Dredd )
- Sedat -
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-22 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-20 3:29 [PATCH v2 00/16] Remove uninitialized_var() macro Kees Cook
2020-06-20 3:29 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var() Kees Cook
2020-06-22 16:59 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-20 3:29 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] x86/mm/numa: Remove uninitialized_var() usage Kees Cook
2020-06-20 3:29 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] drbd: " Kees Cook
2020-06-20 3:29 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] b43: " Kees Cook
2020-06-22 17:04 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-22 21:04 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-23 18:29 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-07-15 10:37 ` Kalle Valo
2020-06-20 3:29 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: " Kees Cook
2020-06-20 3:29 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] ide: " Kees Cook
2020-06-20 3:29 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] clk: st: " Kees Cook
2020-06-22 9:03 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-20 3:29 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] spi: davinci: " Kees Cook
2020-07-01 20:39 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-02 15:21 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-02 15:23 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-02 15:42 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-02 16:23 ` Joe Perches
2020-06-20 3:30 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] clk: spear: " Kees Cook
2020-06-22 9:03 ` Stephen Boyd
2020-06-20 3:30 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: " Kees Cook
2020-06-22 17:22 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-20 3:30 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] media: sur40: " Kees Cook
2020-06-22 18:39 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-20 3:30 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] f2fs: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro Kees Cook
2020-06-20 3:30 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] checkpatch: Remove awareness " Kees Cook
2020-06-20 3:30 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] compiler: Remove " Kees Cook
2020-06-20 3:30 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Remove uninitialized_var() usage Kees Cook
2020-06-22 17:27 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-20 7:03 ` [PATCH v2 00/16] Remove uninitialized_var() macro Sedat Dilek
2020-06-20 15:57 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-22 9:07 ` Sedat Dilek [this message]
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