Re: [PATCH] Prefer kASLR over Hibernation

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When building with both CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE,
> one or the other must be chosen at boot-time. Until now, hibernation
> was selected when no choice was made on the command line.
>
> To make the security benefits of kASLR more widely available to end
> users (since the use of hibernation is becoming more rare and kASLR,
> already available on x86, will be available on arm64 and MIPS soon),
> this changes the default to preferring kASLR over hibernation. Users
> wanting hibernation can turn off kASLR by adding "nokaslr" to the kernel
> command line.
>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Or do you want me to apply it?