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Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 14:22:00 -0800
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
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	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
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	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Behan Webster <behanw@...verseincode.com>,
	Ismael Ripoll <iripoll@....es>,
	Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@....es>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:07:09 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>> This separates ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR, as already done on s390. The
>> various architectures that are already randomizing mmap (arm, arm64, mips,
>> powerpc, s390, and x86), have their various forms of arch_mmap_rnd()
>> made available via the new CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE. For these
>> architectures, arch_randomize_brk() is collapsed as well.
>>
>> This is an alternative to the solutions in:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/23/442
>
> "504 Gateway Time-out"
>
> Hector's original patch had very useful descriptions of the bug, why it
> occurred, how it was exploited it and how the patch fixes it.
>
> Your changelogs contain none of this and can be summarized as "randomly
> churn code around for no apparent reason".
>
> Wanna try again?  I guess the [0/5] and [4/5] changelogs are the ones
> to fix.

Ah, yes, absolutely. I will resend.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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