linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86, boot: clean up kasl

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Date:	Mon, 9 Mar 2015 17:39:39 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86, boot: clean up kasl

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> First 3 patches make ZO (arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux) data region is not
> overwritten by VO (vmlinux) after decompress.  So could pass data from ZO to VO.

Tiny nit-pick, in case there is a v5: the Subject on this (0/7) says
"kasl" instead of "kaslr".

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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