Re: [PATCH] [powerpc] Fix Text randomization

[Vineeth Vijayan]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 14:42 +0530, Vineeth Vijayan wrote:
>> Now there is no way to disable TEXT randomization on a PPC32/PPC64
>> machine. Text randomization happens even in the case of "echo 0 >
>> /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space"
>>
>> This happens due to the incorrect definition of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
>> at arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h
>>
>> The function randomize_et_dyn is redundant and is removed.
>
> The patch looks OK, but for the change log I was thinking something more like
> this:
>
>
> powerpc: Use generic PIE randomization
>
Ok. Thats better.
Do you want me to send a new patch with updated change log as mentioned ?
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