linux-kernel - Re: Stable backport of ASLR fixes?

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:42:43 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	Sebastian Parschauer <s.parschauer@....de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stable Kernel <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Stable backport of ASLR fixes?

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 03:03:12PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Have you had a chance to look at this? I think we need to either
> include the ASLR improvements in stable or revert
> a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86, which breaks existing
> userspace tools.

Not yet, it's behind a few hundred other stable patch requests...

thanks,

greg k-h
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