Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86, kaslr: get kaslr_enabled back correctly

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 04:23:51PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I think that's a different bug.
> 
> parse_kaslr_setup() is simply bogus, it does:
> 
>         kaslr_enabled = (bool)(pa_data + sizeof(struct setup_data));

Well, we found that while debugging the other issue too:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150228105049.GA11038@xxxxxxx

Scroll to the end.

> So I'm inclined to apply Yinghai's fix, with a better changelog that 
> explains what happened ...
> 
> Agreed?

Yes, this fix needs a commit message which actually explains what's it
fixing before it gets applied.

Thanks.

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    Boris.

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