Re: [PATCH v2 04/15] x86, kaslr: get kaslr_enabled back correctly

Borislav Petkov
2015-03-07T20:57:41Z

On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 11:50:54AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:
>
> >
> > "However, the setup_data linked list and thus the element which contains
> > kaslr_enabled is chained together using physical addresses. At the
> > time when we access it in the kernel proper, we're already running
> > with paging enabled and therefore must access it through its virtual
> > address."
> >
> > That's it, now how hard was to explain it that way?
>
> No, I don't think your change log is right.
>
> Actually the old code is using address as value.

Am I saying something about using a physical address as value above? Or
you can't read now either?

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
--