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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:45:23 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Cc:        Tal Garfinkel <talg@cs.stanford.edu>, Ali Mashtizadeh <ali@mashtizadeh.com>
Subject:   adding pointer annotations to syscalls.master
Message-ID:  <20180330204523.GO88362@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>

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I plan to commit https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14285 early next week.  It
adds SAL 2.0 annotations to syscalls in syscalls.master and code
makesyscalls.sh to strip them out in generated files.

This is based on work I started in CheriBSD and use to validate fat
pointers at the syscall boundary.  Tal Garfinkel reviewed the changes,
added annotations to COMPAT* syscalls and is using them in a record and
playback framework.  One can envision other uses such as a WITNESS-like
validator for copyin/out as speculated on in the review.

As this time we are only annotating sys/kern/syscalls.master as that is
sufficient for userspace work.  If kernel use cases materialize, we can
annotate other syscalls.master as needed.

-- Brooks



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