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Date:   Mon, 5 Aug 2019 18:32:02 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>
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        keescook@chromium.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/11] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:45PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the
> kernel to be PIE compatible.
> 
> Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the
> KASLR randomization range below 0xffffffff80000000.

I believe in previous reviews I asked about why this sentence is being
replicated in every commit message and now it is still in every commit
message except in 2/11.

Why do you need it everywhere and not once in the 0th mail?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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