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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: kaslr: move ELF relocation handling to C

* Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Moves the relocation handling into C, after decompression. Only
> >> kernels that need relocation support will use the code. The new
> >> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE does not yet do anything except turn on this logic
> >> for 64-bit kernels.
> >
> > So why not keep the inactive CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE hunks in a separate
> > patch, and just have this one clean, orthogonal patch that moves
> > relocation handling into C?
>
> I had wanted there to be a way to test building with 64-bit
> relocations. With this patch and CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y, I could do
> that. Would you rather I remove those pieces?

But AFAICS CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is not an interactive config option, so
how did you turn it on?

But no strong objections in any case.

Thanks,

Ingo


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