linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols

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Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:06:57 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Honig <ahonig@...gle.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols

On Fri,  7 Mar 2014 17:00:23 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

> Handles 0-based per_cpu variables as being absolute so they are
> not relocated under kASLR on x86_64.
> 

Would it be prudent to revert 0f55159d091cb1e5 ("kallsyms: fix absolute
addresses for kASLR") then sort all this out for 3.15?

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