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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 12:48:50 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...omium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, kristen@...ux.intel.com,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
x86@...nel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/27] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:24:08AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the
> kernel to be PIE compatible.
>
> Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the
> KASLR randomization range below 0xffffffff80000000.
This sentence is auto-sprinkled in a bunch of commit messages. Sounds to
me it should be rather somewhere in the 0/n message as a justification
for the feature but not in every other commit message...?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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