Re: [PATCH v10 01/11] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 07:46:24 EST


On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 04:09:38PM -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.

FFS, how many times do we have to talk about this auto-sprinkled
sentence?!

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190805163202.GD18785@xxxxxxx

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