linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section on walk

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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:56:29 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, Guixiong Wei <weiguixiong@...edance.com>,
	jgross@...e.com, mingo@...hat.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
	x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tony.luck@...el.com,
	adobriyan@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section on
 walk_relocs

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:16:40AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 04:45:45PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The commit it refs to landed via -hardening,
> 
> Yap, saw that. It should've gone through tip too as it is clearly a tip
> tree patch.
> 
> > responsibility of landing this fix too. But it's fine to go via -tip
> > if you prefer?
> 
> Yes, please. Just send a Reviewed-by and it'll get picked up.

Okay, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

> 
> Btw, while looking at that second patch, why does it have *three* Fixes:
> tags? I think it wants to fix only your
> 
> aaa8736370db ("x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section")

As I understand it, the first first was incomplete.

-- 
Kees Cook