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Re: RFC: linux backdoor prevention: msg#00051

Subject: Re: RFC: linux backdoor prevention
> > The first step would to create a tools that find statemenst like
> > if ( (A=b)<0 ). I have played with a grep pipeline and found only
> > a few lines of code. perhaps somebody can make a tool that will show
> > automaticly such kind of code.

What is wrong with "if ( (A=b)< 0)"?  Did you find any incorrect uses of
this kind of construct in the kernel?  By the way, this is just a specific
example of a more common situation: statements with side effects.

Duncan.


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