Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] kallsyms: handle special absolute symbols

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri,  7 Mar 2014 17:00:23 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Handles 0-based per_cpu variables as being absolute so they are
>> not relocated under kASLR on x86_64.
>
> Would it be prudent to revert 0f55159d091cb1e5 ("kallsyms: fix absolute
> addresses for kASLR") then sort all this out for 3.15?

My opinion is that if it breaks a real-life case (avr32), it should be
reverted. The only people affected by the kallsyms per_cpu relocation
reporting bug are those using kASLR on x86, and even then the bug is a
corner case on live kernel debugging.

I am fine either way.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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