From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, kristen@linux.intel.com,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/27] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 12:48:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190207114850.GD2414@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190131192533.34130-2-thgarnie@chromium.org>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:24:08AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the
> kernel to be PIE compatible.
>
> Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the
> KASLR randomization range below 0xffffffff80000000.
This sentence is auto-sprinkled in a bunch of commit messages. Sounds to
me it should be rather somewhere in the 0/n message as a justification
for the feature but not in every other commit message...?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-07 11:49 UTC|newest]
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2019-01-31 19:24 ` [PATCH v6 01/27] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support Thomas Garnier
2019-02-07 11:48 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-02-07 17:01 ` Thomas Garnier
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