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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>, Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:26:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546CC49B.2070109@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xr934mtx9rgx.fsf@gthelen.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 11/17/2014 06:23 PM, Greg Thelen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 17 2014, Greg Thelen wrote:
> [...]
>> Given that bss and brk are nobits (i.e. only ALLOC) sections, does
>> file_offset make sense as a load address.  This fails with gold:
>>

It really doesn't.  We have that information elsewhere.

	-hpa



      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-19 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-31 13:40 [PATCH v3] x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd Junjie Mao
2014-10-31 16:11 ` Kees Cook
2014-11-01 21:24 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Junjie Mao
2014-11-18  2:17 ` [PATCH v3] " Greg Thelen
2014-11-18  2:23   ` Greg Thelen
2014-11-19 16:26     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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