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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: revert PIE randomization?
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:45:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070106214505.GA8904@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070106210826.GA31518@suse.de>


* Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> wrote:

> > You're right. I'm inclined to just revert it, modulo some comments 
> > from others. Marcus?
> 
> After thinking about this, yes.
> 
> I would rather have a working range used here (perhaps like Hugh 
> suggested), but feel free to revert the original patch if you are not 
> confident with it.

i'm wondering why you had to try to reinvent the wheel, instead of 
picking up exec-shield's remaining bits of randomization implementation 
from Fedora, which was tested for a long time and achieves PIE 
randomization and more?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-06 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-06 20:11 revert PIE randomization? Hugh Dickins
2007-01-06 21:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-06 21:08   ` Marcus Meissner
2007-01-06 21:45     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-01-06 21:54       ` Marcus Meissner
2007-01-06 22:42 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-21 18:17 ` Kees Cook
2007-03-21 20:01   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-03-26 20:17     ` Kees Cook

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