From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752627AbcDSIgg (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2016 04:36:36 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com ([74.125.82.66]:33347 "EHLO mail-wm0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750969AbcDSIgd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2016 04:36:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:36:29 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Kees Cook Cc: Yinghai Lu , Baoquan He , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andrey Ryabinin , Dmitry Vyukov , "H.J. Lu" , Josh Poimboeuf , Borislav Petkov , Andy Lutomirski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] x86, boot: clean up KASLR code Message-ID: <20160419083628.GA16698@gmail.com> References: <1460997735-24785-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1460997735-24785-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Kees Cook wrote: > In order to make improvements to KASLR behavior, it has been suggested > that the code should be cleaned up a bit first. This is the start of > those changes. Since there are no stand-alone bug fixes in the later > patches, I will begin here. First with a rename followed by variable > name changes and comment improvements. > > This is the first wave... Ok, that was a really pleasant series - this is exactly what I hoped to see. I've put them into tip:x86/boot (as the changes involve more than just KASLR), based on v4.6-rc4. Thanks, Ingo