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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:56:11 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation" On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:59:23AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > In addition to what you've said, I have only one proposal: we revert > > the whole crap and do it again, this time nice and clean in tip. It'll > > stay there as long as it has to. No half-arsed commit messages, no > > misunderstood crap, no lala code f*ckery. Whatever it takes, as long as > > it takes. > > And here it is: > > --- > From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:57:56 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation" > > This reverts commit f47233c2d34f243ecdaac179c3408a39ff9216a7. > > The main reason for the revert is that 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. > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> > Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> Agreed. Let's work on a better refresh for 4.1+. The fix attempts were quite chaotic. Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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