Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758255Ab3D2RnR (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:17 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.219.49]:37176 "EHLO mail-oa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757308Ab3D2RnP (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:43:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1367003005-5560-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <1367003005-5560-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <517AF5F2.50404@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:43:13 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: fSa6YPT1DthgieRlW8OsxOZSjCY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: kaslr: return location from decompress_kernel From: Kees Cook To: James Morris Cc: "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" , LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "x86@kernel.org" , Jarkko Sakkinen , Matthew Garrett , Matt Fleming , Eric Northup , Dan Rosenberg , Julien Tinnes , Will Drewry Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 897 Lines: 28 On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:25 PM, James Morris wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> > + noaslr [X86] >> > + Disable kernel base offset ASLR (Address Space >> > + Layout Randomization) if built into the kernel. >> > + >> > noautogroup Disable scheduler automatic task group creation. >> > >> > nobats [PPC] Do not use BATs for mapping kernel lowmem >> >> Calling it "nokaslr" might be useful to note that it is specifically >> about the kernel. > > Agreed. Yeah, good call. I'll get this changed. Thanks! -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/