From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754861AbdE0Imu (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2017 04:42:50 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:43090 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751688AbdE0Ims (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2017 04:42:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 01:42:46 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Kees Cook Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Laura Abbott , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/20] randstruct: Disable randomization of ACPICA structs Message-ID: <20170527084246.GB26844@infradead.org> References: <1495829844-69341-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <1495829844-69341-12-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1495829844-69341-12-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 01:17:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > Since the ACPICA source is maintained externally to the kernel, we can > neither switch it to designated initializers nor mark it > __no_randomize_layout. Until ACPICA-upstream changes[1] land to handle the > designated initialization, explicitly skip it in the plugin. > > [1] https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/248 I'd just overried the ACPIA bullshit process and just include these changes, as they are a major improvement independent of any reandomization.