From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 01:42:46 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig Message-ID: <20170527084246.GB26844@infradead.org> References: <1495829844-69341-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <1495829844-69341-12-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1495829844-69341-12-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v2 11/20] randstruct: Disable randomization of ACPICA structs To: Kees Cook Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Laura Abbott , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 01:17:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Since the ACPICA source is maintained externally to the kernel, we can > neither switch it to designated initializers nor mark it > __no_randomize_layout. Until ACPICA-upstream changes[1] land to handle the > designated initialization, explicitly skip it in the plugin. > > [1] https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/248 I'd just overried the ACPIA bullshit process and just include these changes, as they are a major improvement independent of any reandomization.