[PATCH 0/2] ARM: minor sigpage enhancements

Nathan Lynch Nathan_Lynch at mentor.com
Fri Jul 18 09:20:42 PDT 2014


On 07/14/2014 01:57 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch at mentor.com> wrote:
>> Russell,
>>
>> Would you consider taking these for 3.17?  I've been carrying the
>> sigpage placement randomization as part of the VDSO patch set but it
>> seems worthwhile on its own.  Using _install_special_mapping for the
>> VDSO and similar VMAs was recently suggested by Andy Lutomirski.
>>
>> Nathan Lynch (2):
>>   ARM: use _install_special_mapping for sigpage
>>   ARM: place sigpage at a random offset above stack
>>
>>  arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>  1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> Cool! Thanks for this.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

Russell, okay to add these to your patch tracker?




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