Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753466Ab1E0RRb (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 13:17:31 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47527 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751044Ab1E0RRa (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2011 13:17:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DDFDBD2.2000904@zytor.com> References: <1306269105.21443.20.camel@dan> <201105270018.36835.rjw@sisk.pl> <20110527170045.GB4356@elte.hu> <1306516230.3339.17.camel@dan> <4DDFDBD2.2000904@zytor.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:16:37 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Randomize kernel base address on boot To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Dan Rosenberg , Ingo Molnar , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Tony Luck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com, kees.cook@canonical.com, davem@davemloft.net, eranian@google.com, adobriyan@gmail.com, penberg@kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, pageexec@freemail.hu 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: 551 Lines: 15 On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:13 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > You can read the on-disk kernel file and find out. So? Make it root-readable-only. Problem solved. That's the _only_ difference, and it's trivial and irrelevant. Come up with something more real, please. Linus -- 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/