Re: revert PIE randomization?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jan 06 2007 - 16:48:40 EST



* Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > You're right. I'm inclined to just revert it, modulo some comments
> > from others. Marcus?
>
> After thinking about this, yes.
>
> I would rather have a working range used here (perhaps like Hugh
> suggested), but feel free to revert the original patch if you are not
> confident with it.

i'm wondering why you had to try to reinvent the wheel, instead of
picking up exec-shield's remaining bits of randomization implementation
from Fedora, which was tested for a long time and achieves PIE
randomization and more?

Ingo
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