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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:49:21 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] x86/mm: Adapt MODULES_END based on Fixmap section
 size

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 07:40:51AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Why do you think they rely on it being static? The VSYSCALL address is
> not changed for example.

I don't know, that's why I'm asking first. Userspace is known to pick
different aspects of the kernel and deciding to use them for whatever.
And once it relies on that, there's no changing it.

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    Boris.

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