Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14

[Richard Weinberger]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/26/2014 02:16 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>
>> Currently we print the kernel offset only upon a panic() using the
>> panic notifier list.
>> This way it does not show up if the kernel hits a BUG() in process
>> context or something less critical.
>> Wouldn't make more sense to report the offset in every dump_stack() or
>> show_regs() call?
>
> No, because that information is available to user space unless we panic.

Didn't you mean non-root?
I thought one has to set dmesg_restrict anyways if kASLR is used.

And isn't the offset available to perf too?
Of course only for root, but still user space.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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