linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86, kaslr: propagate base load address calculation

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Message-ID: <20150216194201.GK4458@pd.tnic>
Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:42:01 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86, kaslr: propagate base load address calculation

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:27:42AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Well, we can apply the rule of the last setting sticks and since the
> > kernel is always going to be adding the last setup_data element of
> > type SETUP_KASLR (the boot loader ones will be somewhere on the list
> > in-between and we add to the end), we're fine, no?
> 
> Sounds good to me!

Ok, thanks. I'll pick it up and route it through the proper channels.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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