linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] randomize_kstack: Remove non-functional per-arch entropy filtering

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Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:10:56 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] randomize_kstack: Remove non-functional per-arch entropy
 filtering

Hello:

This patch was applied to riscv/linux.git (fixes)
by Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:47:15 -0700 you wrote:
> An unintended consequence of commit 9c573cd31343 ("randomize_kstack:
> Improve entropy diffusion") was that the per-architecture entropy size
> filtering reduced how many bits were being added to the mix, rather than
> how many bits were being used during the offsetting. All architectures
> fell back to the existing default of 0x3FF (10 bits), which will consume
> at most 1KiB of stack space. It seems that this is working just fine,
> so let's avoid the confusion and update everything to use the default.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - randomize_kstack: Remove non-functional per-arch entropy filtering
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/6db1208bf95b

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