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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>,
	Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add rng-seed= command line option
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:47:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200207124744.08a2f4d5@oasis.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202002070850.BD92BDCA@keescook>

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 09:28:27 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> >  static void __init setup_command_line(char *command_line)
> >  {
> >  	size_t len, xlen = 0, ilen = 0;
> > +	static const char argsep_str[] __initconst = " -- ";
> > +	static const char alloc_fail_msg[] __initconst =
> > +		"%s: Failed to allocate %zu bytes\n";  
> 
> There's some refactoring in this patch unrelated to the seed logic. Can
> you split that out? (I think these changes are good.)
> 
> >  
> >  	if (extra_command_line)
> >  		xlen = strlen(extra_command_line);  
> 
> Unrelated note: whoa this is based on linux-next which has a massive
> change to the boot command line handling and appears to be doing some
> bad things. I need to go find that thread...

This would be Masami's bootconfig work which Linus already pulled in.
What bad things are there? You can see the thread here:

 http://lore.kernel.org/r/157867220019.17873.13377985653744804396.stgit@devnote2
 http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjfjO+h6bQzrTf=YCZA53Y3EDyAs3Z4gEsT7icA3u_Psw@mail.gmail.com

-- Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-07 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 15:07 Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-07 15:58 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-02-07 17:49   ` Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-08  0:49     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-02-08  0:53       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-13 11:24         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-13 15:03           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-13 18:44             ` Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-14  1:16               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-14 17:02                 ` Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-10 12:13       ` Mark Brown
2020-02-11 15:07         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-02-10 14:45   ` [PATCH 0/4 v2] random add rng-seed to " Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-10 14:45     ` [PATCH 1/4 v2] init: move string constants to __initconst section Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-10 14:45     ` [PATCH 2/4 v2] init: boot_command_line can be truncated Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-10 14:45     ` [PATCH 3/4 v2] random: rng-seed source is utf-8 Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-10 14:45     ` [PATCH 4/4 v2] random: add rng-seed= command line option Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-10 21:40       ` Randy Dunlap
2020-02-10 22:19         ` [PATCH 4/4 v3] " Mark Salyzyn
2020-02-07 17:28 ` [PATCH] " Kees Cook
2020-02-07 17:47   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-02-07 17:58   ` Mark Salyzyn

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