linux-kernel - ASR: Address Space Randomization (was: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG

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Message-Id: <200703170055.18047.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:55:17 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ASR: Address Space Randomization (was: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT)

ebiederm wrote:
> I'm tempted to rant on the pure insanity of address space randomization
> but that is a whole other issue...

Please do rant; all I can see asr brings is one big performance hit.

Of course, it's not enough to just attack this at the kernel, but glibc has 
to play accordingly as well.


Thanks!

--
Al

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