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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>,
	Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, build: replace Perl script with Shell script
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:04:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B4A754.9060405@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150113021750.GA24160@www.outflux.net>

On 01/12/2015 08:17 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> Commit e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")
> added Perl to the required build environment. This reimplements in shell
> the Perl script used to find the size of the kernel with bss and brk added.
> 
> Reported-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

I just noticed earlier today that my version doesn't notice if objdump
isn't in the $PATH. (Happens if you're cross compiling and not all
binaries prefixed.)

Other than that:

Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>

(I don't have a setup with gold to test...)

Rob

      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-13  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-13  2:17 [PATCH] x86, build: replace Perl script with Shell script Kees Cook
2015-01-13  5:04 ` Rob Landley [this message]

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