From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, kristen@linux.intel.com,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/11] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 09:54:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201908050952.BC1F7C3@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190805163202.GD18785@zn.tnic>
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 06:32:02PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:45PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the
> > kernel to be PIE compatible.
> >
> > Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the
> > KASLR randomization range below 0xffffffff80000000.
>
> I believe in previous reviews I asked about why this sentence is being
> replicated in every commit message and now it is still in every commit
> message except in 2/11.
>
> Why do you need it everywhere and not once in the 0th mail?
I think there was some long-ago feedback from someone (Ingo?) about
giving context for the patch so looking at one individually would let
someone know that it was part of a larger series. This is a distant
memory, though. Do you think it should just be dropped in each patch?
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-05 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-30 19:12 [PATCH v9 00/11] x86: PIE support to extend KASLR randomization Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 01/11] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support Thomas Garnier
2019-08-05 16:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-05 16:54 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2019-08-05 17:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-05 17:53 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 02/11] x86: Add macro to get symbol address " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 03/11] x86: relocate_kernel - Adapt assembly " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 04/11] x86/entry/64: " Thomas Garnier
2019-08-05 17:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-05 17:50 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-08-06 5:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-06 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-06 12:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-06 13:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-06 15:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 05/11] x86: pm-trace - " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 06/11] x86/CPU: " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 07/11] x86/acpi: " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 08/11] x86/boot/64: " Thomas Garnier
2019-08-09 17:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-29 21:29 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 09/11] x86/power/64: " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 10/11] x86/paravirt: " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-31 12:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-12 12:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-29 21:30 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 11/11] x86/alternatives: " Thomas Garnier
2019-08-12 13:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-29 21:31 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-08-06 15:43 ` [PATCH v9 00/11] x86: PIE support to extend KASLR randomization Borislav Petkov
2019-08-06 15:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-29 19:55 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-09-06 23:22 ` Thomas Garnier
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