[PATCH 0/2] ARM: minor sigpage enhancements

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Mon Jul 14 11:57:05 PDT 2014


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>

-Kees

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