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*	Constify structures containing function pointers	Richard Yao	2013-03-04	1	-1/+1
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	The PaX team modified the kernel's modpost to report writeable function pointers as section mismatches because they are potential exploit targets. We could ignore the warnings, but their presence can obscure actual issues. Proper const correctness can also catch programming mistakes. Building the kernel modules against a PaX/GrSecurity patched Linux 3.4.2 kernel reports 133 section mismatches prior to this patch. This patch eliminates 130 of them. The quantity of writeable function pointers eliminated by constifying each structure is as follows: vdev_opts_t 52 zil_replay_func_t 24 zio_compress_info_t 24 zio_checksum_info_t 9 space_map_ops_t 7 arc_byteswap_func_t 5 The remaining 3 writeable function pointers cannot be addressed by this patch. 2 of them are in zpl_fs_type. The kernel's sget function requires that this be non-const. The final writeable function pointer is created by SPL_SHRINKER_DECLARE. The kernel's set_shrinker() and remove_shrinker() functions also require that this be non-const. Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #1300
*	Support custom build directories and move includes	Brian Behlendorf	2010-09-08	1	-0/+75
	One of the neat tricks an autoconf style project is capable of is allow configurion/building in a directory other than the source directory. The major advantage to this is that you can build the project various different ways while making changes in a single source tree. For example, this project is designed to work on various different Linux distributions each of which work slightly differently. This means that changes need to verified on each of those supported distributions perferably before the change is committed to the public git repo. Using nfs and custom build directories makes this much easier. I now have a single source tree in nfs mounted on several different systems each running a supported distribution. When I make a change to the source base I suspect may break things I can concurrently build from the same source on all the systems each in their own subdirectory. wget -c http://github.com/downloads/behlendorf/zfs/zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz cd zfs-x-y-z ------------------------- run concurrently ---------------------- <ubuntu system> <fedora system> <debian system> <rhel6 system> mkdir ubuntu mkdir fedora mkdir debian mkdir rhel6 cd ubuntu cd fedora cd debian cd rhel6 ../configure ../configure ../configure ../configure make make make make make check make check make check make check This change also moves many of the include headers from individual incude/sys directories under the modules directory in to a single top level include directory. This has the advantage of making the build rules cleaner and logically it makes a bit more sense.