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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:15:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Kees Cook wrote:

> > Although in either case we are adding code to the fastpath...
>
> While I'd like it unconditionally, I think Alexander's proposal was to
> put it behind CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED.

Sounds good.

> BTW, while I've got your attention, can you Ack the other patch? I
> sent a v4 for the pointer obfuscation, which we really need:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/26/4

Just looked through it.

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