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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Yury Gribov <y.gribov@samsung.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>, <x86@kernel.org>,
	<linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] UBSAN: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 16:37:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204163747.0bb51d61832ac75bfc73ce0c@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449157807-20298-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 18:50:04 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> wrote:

> UBSAN is run-time undefined behaviour checker. It uses compile-time
> instrumentation to catch undefined behavior (UB). Compiler inserts code
> that perform certain kinds of checks before operations that could cause UB.
> If check fails (i.e. UB detected) __ubsan_handle_* function called to print error message.

What I'd like to see in this changelog is a description of any kernel
issues which this checker has already identified: what were they and
what was their potential impact at runtime.

This info will help us to understand the value of the proposed feature.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-05  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-03 15:50 Andrey Ryabinin
2015-12-03 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] kernel: printk: specify alignment for struct printk_log Andrey Ryabinin
2015-12-03 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mac80211: Prevent build failure with CONFIG_UBSAN=y Andrey Ryabinin
2015-12-03 17:05   ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-03 19:18     ` Andrey Ryabinin
2015-12-03 15:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] UBSAN: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker Andrey Ryabinin
2015-12-04 14:27   ` kbuild test robot
2015-12-05  0:40     ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-08 23:59   ` Andrew Morton
2015-12-10  1:15   ` Daniel Axtens
2015-12-05  0:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-12-07 16:48   ` [PATCH v4 0/3] " Andrey Ryabinin
2015-12-10 15:48   ` Andrey Ryabinin

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