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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] x86: Various clean-ups in support of FGKASLR
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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 10:57:38 -0700

> Hi,
>
> These are a small set of patches that clean up various things that are
> each stand-alone improvements, but they're also needed for the coming
> FGKASLR series[1]. I thought it best to just get these landed instead
> of having them continue to tag along with FGKASLR, especially the
> early malloc() fix, which is a foot-gun waiting to happen. :)

Thanks for picking this! Those really are standalone guys.

> Thanks!
>
> -Kees
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210831144114.154-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com/
>
> Kees Cook (2):
> x86/boot: Allow a "silent" kaslr random byte fetch
> x86/boot/compressed: Avoid duplicate malloc() implementations
>
> Kristen Carlson Accardi (2):
> x86/tools/relocs: Support >64K section headers
> vmlinux.lds.h: Have ORC lookup cover entire _etext - _stext
>
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 4 --
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 3 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/lib/kaslr.c | 18 ++++--
> arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 3 +-
> include/linux/decompress/mm.h | 12 +++-
> 7 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.30.2

Thanks,
Al

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