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Date:   Mon, 3 Jun 2019 18:40:01 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/14] arm64, mm: Make randomization selected by
 generic topdown mmap layout
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On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 09:47:37AM -0400, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> This commits selects ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE when an arch uses the generic
> topdown mmap layout functions so that this security feature is on by
> default.
> Note that this commit also removes the possibility for arm64 to have elf
> randomization and no MMU: without MMU, the security added by randomization
> is worth nothing.

Not planning on this anytime soon ;).

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>