From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Reply-To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 19:44:07 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov Message-ID: <20160510174407.GG28520@pd.tnic> References: <1462900755-20005-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <1462900755-20005-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1462900755-20005-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] x86/KASLR: Clarify identity map interface To: Kees Cook Cc: Ingo Molnar , Yinghai Lu , Baoquan He , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Vivek Goyal , Andy Lutomirski , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, Andrew Morton , Dave Young , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, LKML List-ID: On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:19:12AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > This extracts the call to prepare_level4() into a top-level function > that the user of the pagetable.c interface must call to initialize > the new page tables. For clarity and to match the "finalize" function, > it has been renamed to initialize_identity_maps(). This function also > gains the initialization of mapping_info so we don't have to do it each > time in add_identity_map(). > > Additionally add copyright notice to the top, to make it clear that the > bulk of the pagetable.c code was written by Yinghai, and that I just > added bugs later. :) > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook > --- > arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 3 +++ > arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 3 +++ > arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++---------- > 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Exactly! Acked-by: Borislav Petkov -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --