linux-kernel - Re: --orphan-handling=warn

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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdm1qoKdq=Cp3nrYPR6oXkGZ32Hmh2TPVgatKAvDHk7q4g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:26:02 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>
Subject: Re: --orphan-handling=warn

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:11 AM Kristen Carlson Accardi
<kristen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 21:35 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for looking into this! It'll be really nice to have the orphan
> > section warnings working in the kernel. And getting the ground work
> > for
> > FGKASLR ready will be nice!
> >
> > Kristen, can I convince you that FG stands for function-granular
> > instead of fine-grain? :)
> >
>
> Yes, sounds good to me - that way if we ever do basic block reordering
> or some crazy thing like that we don't have to say even-finer-fine-
> grained KASLR :).

LOL (I laugh now, but "never say never.")
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers