linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kallsyms: Get rid of kallsyms relative base

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Message-ID: <202601151651.C156DC5D7@keescook>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:52:14 -0800
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nsc@...nel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kallsyms: Get rid of kallsyms relative base

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 03:56:45PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This makes all entries in the kallsyms_offsets[] array visible as
> place-relative references in the ELF metadata, which will be important
> when implementing ELF-based fg-kaslr.

This makes things a lot simpler.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>

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Kees Cook