From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:57:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:63441 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20030018AbXI0O5O (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:57:14 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8REvD1K010493; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:57:13 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8REvCBq010492; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:57:12 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:57:12 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Franck Bui-Huu Cc: nigel@mips.com, linux-mips Subject: Re: Useless stack randomization patch Message-ID: <20070927145712.GA10377@linux-mips.org> References: <46FA6846.2080704@gmail.com> <20070926150433.GA28017@linux-mips.org> <46FA78AA.9050104@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46FA78AA.9050104@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 16719 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:20:10PM +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:10:14PM +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > > I suppose we should give it a sane definition. Not sure what would be > > useful, if it should be like an ASCII string with the processor type or > > more corse grained like just "mips32r2", should ASEs be mentioned ... > > > > Well before giving any sane definition, shouldn't we know why this > dependency (ELF_PLATFORM/sp-randomization) exists at all... > > Is something like the patch below better ? Yes, I think that makes more sense. Ralf