Re: [PATCH] x86: kaslr: move ELF relocation handling to C

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Apr 21 2013 - 05:14:08 EST



* Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Moves the relocation handling into C, after decompression. Only
> kernels that need relocation support will use the code. The new
> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE does not yet do anything except turn on this logic
> for 64-bit kernels.

So why not keep the inactive CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE hunks in a separate
patch, and just have this one clean, orthogonal patch that moves
relocation handling into C?

Thanks,

Ingo
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