linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 11/11] x86/alternatives: Adapt assembly for PIE support

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Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:31:15 -0700
From:   Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...omium.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 11/11] x86/alternatives: Adapt assembly for PIE support

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 6:56 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:55PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > Change the assembly options to work with pointers instead of integers.
>
> This commit message is too vague. A before/after example would make it a
> lot more clear why the change is needed.

Sorry for the late reply, busy couple months.

I will try to do my best to explain it better in next iteration.

>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
> Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.