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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium•org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	"x86@kernel•org" <x86@kernel•org>,
	Hector Marco Gisbert <hecmargi@upv•es>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org\"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org>,
	Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips•org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org"@localhost.localdomain,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel•org>, ismael Ripoll <iripoll@upv•es>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix offset2lib issue for x86*, ARM*, PowerPC and MIPS
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:06:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226160641.547657c397ecfee078779217@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jK0YbyL+Z=YrCfkfGbYz6=65Rr_MAXLwrF36gJa2Ce4_w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:37:37 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium•org> wrote:

> Agh, no, please let's avoid the CONFIG addition.

That is precisely how we do this.

> Hector mentioned in private mail that he was looking at an alternative
> that adds exec_base to struct mm which would avoid all this insanity.
> 
> Can't we do something like:
> 
> #ifndef mmap_rnd
> # define mmap_rnd 0
> #endif

Sure, and sprinkle

#define mmap_rnd mmap_rnd

in five arch header files where nobody thinks to look.

For better or for worse, we are consolidating such things into arch/*/Kconfig.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-27  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <54EB735F.5030207@upv.es>
2015-02-23 19:34 ` [PATCH] Fix offset2lib issue for x86*, ARM*, PowerPC and MIPS Kees Cook
2015-02-23 19:54   ` Hector Marco Gisbert
2015-02-24  7:39     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-26 22:38       ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-26 22:43         ` David Daney
2015-02-26 23:00         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-02-26 23:05           ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-26 23:03         ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-26 23:21         ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-02-26 23:34           ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]             ` <CAGXu5jK0YbyL+Z=YrCfkfGbYz6=65Rr_MAXLwrF36gJa2Ce4_w@mail.gmail.com>
2015-02-27  0:06               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <CAGXu5j+3D7FrAJNLHTgEuK5wnOmUZG13xxi6eONuWiY2zKCMqQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-02-27  0:20                   ` Kees Cook
2015-02-26 23:26         ` Stephen Rothwell
2015-02-26 23:34         ` Kees Cook
2015-02-26 23:39           ` Andrew Morton

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