Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754750AbaAUN44 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:56:56 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35723 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753817AbaAUN4v (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:56:51 -0500 Message-ID: <52DE7C49.90503@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:55:21 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Adrian Hunter , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Cong Ding , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Kees Cook , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mathias Krause , Michael Davidson , Thomas Gleixner , Wei Yongjun Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14 References: <201401201647.s0KGlZdh004167@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> <20140121102700.GB2981@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140121102700.GB2981@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/21/2014 02:27 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Hm, live annotation of the kernel image is a relatively new perf > feature, and KASLR predated that (by years) - which would at least in > part explain why it went unnoticed. (Although it does not excuse the > lack of testing.) > kASLR is new, but on 32 bits we have relocated the kernel for a long time. kASLR is the first use case of relocating the 64-bit kernel, though. -hpa -- 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/