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Message-ID: <20170106174421.cujnv2bcl5hqresn@pd.tnic>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 18:44:21 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>,
	Chen Yucong <slaoub@...il.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86/mm/KASLR: Remap GDTs at fixed location

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 08:40:29AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > kernel_unrandomize_smp() ...
> >
> 
> That seems like a better name.

Hardly... I'd call it something like kaslr_load_gdt() to actually say
what this function is doing.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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