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Message-ID: <20200305205034.GC6506@cisco>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 13:50:34 -0700
From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, "Tobin C . Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Nick Hu <nickhu@...estech.com>,
Greentime Hu <green.hu@...il.com>,
Vincent Chen <deanbo422@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nds32/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:06:39AM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> For security, don't display the kernel's virtual memory layout.
>
> Kees Cook points out:
> "These have been entirely removed on other architectures, so let's
> just do the same for ia32 and remove it unconditionally."
>
> 071929dbdd86 ("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> 1c31d4e96b8c ("ARM: 8820/1: mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> 31833332f798 ("m68k/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> fd8d0ca25631 ("parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout")
> adb1fe9ae2ee ("mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()")
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
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