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Message-ID: <CAGXu5j+RgbMKqiBcsWMOZ-ci-rT19imgCoHtPKgDURF1tC+COg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:35:10 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
"Van De Ven, Arjan" <arjan.van.de.ven@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] vmalloc: Add __vmalloc_node_try_addr function
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> On 06/20/2018 03:09 PM, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
>> +void *__vmalloc_node_try_addr(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size,
>> + gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot, unsigned long vm_flags,
>> + int node, const void *caller)
>> +{
>
> so this isn't optional, eh? You are going to force it on people because?
RANDOMIZE_BASE isn't optional either. :) This improves the module
address entropy with (what seems to be) no down-side, so yeah, I think
it should be non-optional. :)
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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