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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Hector Marco Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ismael Ripoll <iripoll@upv.es>, "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix offset2lib issue for x86*, ARM*, PowerPC and MIPS
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:39:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226153928.1df44df8a0d885fa71c471ce@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJ8UM5J58CpBwP=+kHi9td0mKP0SV36HjpckEjxCzm45g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:34:36 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> >> That pointless repetition should be avoided.
> >
> > That's surprisingly hard!
> >
> > After renaming mips brk_rnd() to mmap_rnd() I had a shot.  I'm not very
> > confident in the result.  Does that __weak trick even work?
> 
> In theory, it shouldn't be needed since only randomize_et_dyn will
> call mmap_rnd, and only architectures that use randomize_et_dyn will
> call it ... and will define mmap_rnd.

But randomize_et_dyn() is compiled for all architectures.  Or it was,
until I did the CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_ELF_ASLR thing.

It seems odd that we have this per-arch feature but no Kconfig switch
for it.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-23 18:37 [PATCH] Fix offset2lib issue for x86*, ARM*, PowerPC and MIPS Hector Marco
2015-02-23 19:34 ` Kees Cook
2015-02-23 19:54   ` Hector Marco Gisbert
2015-02-24  7:39     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-26 22:38       ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-26 22:43         ` David Daney
2015-02-26 23:00         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-02-26 23:05           ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-26 23:03         ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-26 23:26         ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-02-26 23:34         ` Kees Cook
2015-02-26 23:39           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
     [not found]         ` <20150227102136.17ef1fe6@canb.auug.org.au>
     [not found]           ` <20150226153435.df670671fb10eb9efa0fa845@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]             ` <CAGXu5jK0YbyL+Z=YrCfkfGbYz6=65Rr_MAXLwrF36gJa2Ce4_w@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <20150226160641.547657c397ecfee078779217@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]                 ` <CAGXu5j+3D7FrAJNLHTgEuK5wnOmUZG13xxi6eONuWiY2zKCMqQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-02-27  0:20                   ` Kees Cook

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