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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, kristen@linux.intel.com,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
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	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Masahiro Yamada" <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	"Michal Marek" <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>,
	"Alok Kataria" <akataria@vmware.com>,
	"Dennis Zhou" <dennis@kernel.org>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	"Len Brown" <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/27] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:40:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190131214038.GI28234@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190131192533.34130-1-thgarnie@chromium.org>

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:24:07AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> There has been no major concern in the latest iterations. I am interested on
> what would be the best way to slowly integrate this patchset upstream.

One question that I was somehow expected in this cover letter - what
about all those lovely speculative bugs? As in say some one hasn't
updated their machine with the Spectre v3a microcode - wouldn't they
be able to get the kernel virtual address space?

In effect rendering all this hard-work not needed?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-31 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-31 19:24 [PATCH v6 00/27] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization Thomas Garnier
2019-01-31 19:24 ` [PATCH v6 19/27] kvm: Adapt assembly for PIE support Thomas Garnier
2019-02-06 19:56   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-02-06 21:23     ` Thomas Garnier
2019-01-31 19:59 ` [PATCH v6 00/27] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization Kees Cook
2019-01-31 21:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2019-01-31 22:42   ` Thomas Garnier

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