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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 7/7] tools: add userspace linker table sandbox
- To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:31:47 -0700
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:41 PM, <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add a userspace sandbox to allow easy experimentation and
> test extensions with linker tables, section ranges and the
> new section core definitions.
>
> The userspace sandbox tries to mimic the Linux kernel development
> flow as much as possible, it however relies on and uses libc. Support
> is currently only provided to x86_64.
>
> v4: this patch is new in this series -- added to the kenrel as
> suggested by Boris, as otherwise it'd be really hard to keep
> an external userspace repository in sync.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/sections/linker-tables.rst | 4 +-
> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> include/linux/tables.h | 5 +-
> tools/Makefile | 3 +-
> .../arch/x86/include/generated/asm/section-core.h | 1 +
> tools/arch/x86/include/generated/ranges.h | 1 +
> tools/arch/x86/include/generated/tables.h | 1 +
> tools/include/asm-generic/ranges.h | 103 ++++
> tools/include/asm-generic/section-core.h | 341 +++++++++++
> tools/include/asm-generic/tables.h | 50 ++
Aren't a bunch of these files exact duplicates of the headers in include/linux?
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Nexus Security
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