Re: [PATCH] doc: convert printk-formats.txt to rst

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Murray <amurray@mpc-data.co.uk>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: convert printk-formats.txt to rst
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 14:48:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171209114819.yuncnn4ccsgvffcg@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1512785925.26342.4.camel@perches.com>

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 06:18:45PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 12:27 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 01:22:37PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > > Outside of the documentation, what could be useful is for
> > > someone to add a tool to verify %p<foo> extension to
> > > the typeof address actually passed as an argument.
> > 
> > This sounds interesting to work no. At first glance I have no idea how
> > one would go about this. Some form of static analysis would be a good
> > place to start, right? I'd like to allocate some cycles to this, any
> > pointers most appreciated.
> 
> A gcc-plugin would likely work best.
> 
> There was some discussion about such a thing here:
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/02/14/38
> 
> I vaguely recall someone else doing a broader use tool
> which I believe was not smatch, but my google-fu isn't
> finding it.

Yeah.  Smatch has a check for this.  Rasmus Villemoes wrote it.

regards,
dan carpenter