linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:25:35 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cong Ding <dinggnu@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>,
	Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14

Am 28.01.2014 16:55, schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
> On 01/28/2014 12:25 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>
>> Yep.
>> I like Ingo's idea (capital letters as indicators).
>> Are we all fine with that?
>>
> 
> I guess it is extremely unlikely that we'd have a kernel address without
> any letters... the "general solutions only please" part of my brain
> wants to scream to handle that corner case, though.  The most logical
> way would be to change the brackets.
> 
> It doesn't matter much, though.

I fear both solutions will break various scripts.
For example scripts/markup_oops.pl looks for \[\<([a-z0-9]+)\>\].

Thanks,
//richard
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