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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:02:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140310130224.70ec6a1940ec636bfb89f6bb@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5j+9Qt2p+dqdqcecMQ4RRb8tBVMqMDBdRGFjiRQHmDaatQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:58:06 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri,  7 Mar 2014 17:00:23 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >> Handles 0-based per_cpu variables as being absolute so they are
> >> not relocated under kASLR on x86_64.
> >
> > Would it be prudent to revert 0f55159d091cb1e5 ("kallsyms: fix absolute
> > addresses for kASLR") then sort all this out for 3.15?
> 
> My opinion is that if it breaks a real-life case (avr32), it should be
> reverted.

We aren't going to be able to test this on 40 architectures so yes,
let's take the cautious approach.

> The only people affected by the kallsyms per_cpu relocation
> reporting bug are those using kASLR on x86, and even then the bug is a
> corner case on live kernel debugging.
> 
> I am fine either way.


      reply	other threads:[~2014-03-10 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-08  1:00 [PATCH v2 0/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols Kees Cook
2014-03-08  1:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] kallsyms: generalize address range checking Kees Cook
2014-03-08  1:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols Kees Cook
2014-03-11 21:03   ` Kees Cook
2014-03-13  0:42     ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-13  0:40       ` Kees Cook
2014-03-13  3:52         ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-13  6:23           ` Kees Cook
2014-03-17  3:48             ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-10 19:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Andrew Morton
2014-03-10 19:58   ` Kees Cook
2014-03-10 20:02     ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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