On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 08:47:36AM +0530, kaiwan.billimo...@gmail.com wrote: > Currently, leaking_addresses.pl only supports scanning 64 bit > architectures. This is due to how the regular expressions are formed. We > can do better than this. 32 architectures can be supported if we take > into consideration the kernel virtual address split (via the PAGE_OFFSET > kernel configurable). > > Add support for ix86 32 bit architectures. > - Add command line option for page offset. > - Add command line option for kernel configuration file. > - Parse kernel config file for page offset (CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET). > - Use page offset when checking for kernel virtual addresses. > > > Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan.billimo...@gmail.com> > --- > > Ok, this patch is the same as the previous v3, with suggestions from Tobin > incorporated: > - newline in sub is_false_positive_ix86_32 > - refactoring of code to remove the temp file in sub get_page_offset > - git short desc delibrately modified to make it more appropriate.
Cool, this is all good. I'm not going to apply it because of our previous discussion on doing a general 32 bit implementation. I've just finished doing some work to lay the ground for that. Posting the patch set now. thanks, Tobin.
