Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2017 15:26:50 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] [RFC V2 1/6] lib: vsprintf: additional kernel pointer filtering options |
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 09:08:57AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 10:55:42 +0200 > Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 11:06:45AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > > Add the kptr_restrict setting of 3 which results in both > > > %p and %pK values being replaced by zeros. > > > > > > Add an additional %pP value inspired by the Grsecurity > > > option which explicitly whitelists pointers for output. > > > > > > Amend scripts/checkpatch.pl to handle %pP. > > > > > > This patch is based on work by William Roberts > > > <william.c.roberts@intel.com> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Greg, > > I'm curious to why you are adding a "Signed-off-by"? That usually means > that you either help author it, or it is going through your tree. I've > never seen a "Signed-off-by" in passing. That's usually a "Acked-by" or > "Reviewed-by".
I did help author it :)
Hope that helps,
greg k-h
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