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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:08:56 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...el.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>, Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>,
Julien Tinnes <jln@...gle.com>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: kaslr: relocate base offset at boot
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2013 07:31 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> I also am starting to think that this really would be done better being
>> integrated with the decompressor code, since that code already ends up
>> moving the code around... no reason to do this again.
>>
>
> Another good reason to do this in the decompressor wrapper: it can be
> written in C that way.
This would make the code much more readable, for sure. And given that
the 64-bit relocation work happens after decompression, this seems
only right. Good idea! I'll start working on it.
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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