linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation"

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:32:38 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@...il.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	"linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org" 
	<linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation"

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:11 AM, tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
<tipbot@...or.com> wrote:
> Commit-ID:  69797dafe35541bfff1989c0b37c66ed785faf0e
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/69797dafe35541bfff1989c0b37c66ed785faf0e
> Author:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:06:28 +0100
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> CommitDate: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:18:21 +0100
>
> Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation"
>
> This reverts commit:
>
>   f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")
>
> The main reason for the revert is that the new boot flag does not work
> at all currently, and in order to make this work, we need non-trivial
> changes to the x86 boot code which we didn't manage to get done in
> time for merging.
>
> And even if we did, they would've been too risky so instead of
> rushing things and break booting 4.1 on boxes left and right, we
> will be very strict and conservative and will take our time with
> this to fix and test it properly.
>
> Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

Please put
Reported-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@...el.com>
too

accord to

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142492905425130&w=2
...
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150316100628.GD22995@pd.tnic

the URL does not work.

Thanks

Yinghai
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