[PATCH v5sub2 0/8] arm64: implement virtual KASLR

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Feb 8 04:14:31 PST 2016


On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:42:30PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On 5 February 2016 at 18:32, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> >> I'm still trying to get my head around how we merge those. Since I
> >> assume akpm will push them during the merging window, part of your code
> >> cannot be tested before.
> >
> > Actually, my original idea was for akpm to take them as a late merge
> > after rebasing to -rc1, since they touch a variety of architectures,
> > but I am not sure if that came across.
> >
> > You could always take the series through your tree instead, I guess?
> 
> Traditionally akpm will de-duplicate patches he's carrying that appear
> in another tree. I think it should be okay to carry them in both
> places. (Though I'm CCing akpm just to see if I'm talking crazy.)

For now, I'll merge this series in the arm64 tree and push it to next:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452007180-27411-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org

If there are any objections, I can drop the patches and do the
BUILDTIME_EXTABLE_SORT disabling trick until they end up in mainline.

-- 
Catalin



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