Re: [PATCH v6 01/27] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support

[Thomas Garnier]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 3:49 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:24:08AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the
> > kernel to be PIE compatible.
> >
> > Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the
> > KASLR randomization range below 0xffffffff80000000.
>
> This sentence is auto-sprinkled in a bunch of commit messages. Sounds to
> me it should be rather somewhere in the 0/n message as a justification
> for the feature but not in every other commit message...?

I go into more details in the compose message but I wanted a small
sentence explaining why PIE changes are being made.

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> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
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