From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751535AbbKJGic (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Nov 2015 01:38:32 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:48938 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169AbbKJGia (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Nov 2015 01:38:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:38:21 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Kees Cook Cc: Dan Carpenter , Julia Lawall , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Tomi Valkeinen , linux-geode@lists.infradead.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures Message-ID: <20151110063821.GA31014@infradead.org> References: <1447018493-20631-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <20151108221624.GP18797@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:20:12PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > Just to remind everyone: while we certainly want to clean these up in > the code where possible, we still want to make the constification > plugin part of the regular builds. We want to provide a > secure-by-default build, even when vendors are adding their own > out-of-tree code when producing Linux-based products. So, we'll always > want to have the plugin as a back-stop for out-of-tree code, or places > where const was accidentally missed upstream. Who is 'we'? While a plugin like this that warns would be very ueful I strongly disagree with bloating the kernel tree with any infrastructure primarily aimed at out of tree code.