Re: [PATCH 0/4] x86: Various clean-ups in support of FGKASLR

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 10:57:38AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Kees Cook (2):
>   x86/boot: Allow a "silent" kaslr random byte fetch
>   x86/boot/compressed: Avoid duplicate malloc() implementations
> 
> Kristen Carlson Accardi (2):
>   x86/tools/relocs: Support >64K section headers
>   vmlinux.lds.h: Have ORC lookup cover entire _etext - _stext
> 
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c  |   4 --
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c   |   3 +
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h   |   2 +
>  arch/x86/lib/kaslr.c              |  18 ++++--
>  arch/x86/tools/relocs.c           | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |   3 +-
>  include/linux/decompress/mm.h     |  12 +++-
>  7 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Boris, these are indeed all improvements to the status quo, irrespective
of future FGKASLR work. Do you want to take them, or should I stick them
in x86/core ?