[PATCH] Extract initrd free logic from arch-specific code.

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Thu Mar 29 03:55:07 AEDT 2018


On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
> Now only those architectures that have custom initrd free requirements
> need to define free_initrd_mem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com>

Yay consolidation! :)

> --- a/usr/Kconfig
> +++ b/usr/Kconfig
> @@ -233,3 +233,7 @@ config INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION
>         default ".lzma" if RD_LZMA
>         default ".bz2"  if RD_BZIP2
>         default ""
> +
> +config HAVE_ARCH_FREE_INITRD_MEM
> +       bool
> +       default n

If you keep the Kconfig, you can leave off "default n", and I'd
suggest adding a help section just to describe what the per-arch
responsibilities are when select-ing the config. (See
HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER for an example.)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security


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