Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:03:11 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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        Michael Davidson <md@google.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14
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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> 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. [...]

I doubt many people develop on 32-bit x86, and the group of people 
looking at annotated 32-bit assembly kernel profiles ought to be 
another order of magnitude smaller than that ...

> [...]  kASLR is the first use case of relocating the 64-bit kernel, 
> though.

Yeah.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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