linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 23/23] x86, kaiser: add Kconfig

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Message-ID: <20171101090750.fz3mgz5sefdkgwso@pd.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 10:07:50 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, moritz.lipp@...k.tugraz.at,
        daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at, michael.schwarz@...k.tugraz.at,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/23] x86, kaiser: add Kconfig

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 04:59:37PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> A quick look through "#ifdef CONFIG_KAISER" looks like it might be
> possible to make this a runtime setting at some point. When doing
> KASLR, it was much more useful to make this runtime selectable so that
> distro kernels could build the support in, but let users decide if
> they wanted to enable it.

Yes please.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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