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

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Mon Feb 8 06:30:47 PST 2016


On 8 February 2016 at 13:14, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Latest version is here:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453892123-17973-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
(only difference is an ack from that Alpha maintainter/supporter to
patches #1 and #2)

However, the arm64 patch (#6) now conflicts with futex.h in -rc3 after
the PAN fix, not sure how to best address that ...

-- 
Ard.



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