From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932939AbbCPTck (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:32:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f173.google.com ([209.85.223.173]:36096 "EHLO mail-ie0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754329AbbCPTci (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:32:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20150316100628.GD22995@pd.tnic> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:32:38 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ixA8eptimf7IWGhOL6Wc56vXgy4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation" From: Yinghai Lu To: Ard Biesheuvel , Borislav Petkov , Junjie Mao , Yinghai Lu , Kees Cook , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Baoquan He , Matt Fleming , Jiri Kosina , Josh Triplett , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Cc: "linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:11 AM, tip-bot for Borislav Petkov wrote: > Commit-ID: 69797dafe35541bfff1989c0b37c66ed785faf0e > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/69797dafe35541bfff1989c0b37c66ed785faf0e > Author: Borislav Petkov > AuthorDate: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:06:28 +0100 > Committer: Ingo Molnar > CommitDate: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:18:21 +0100 > > Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation" > > This reverts commit: > > f47233c2d34f ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation") > > The main reason for the revert is that the new boot flag does not work > at all currently, and in order to make this work, we need non-trivial > changes to the x86 boot code which we didn't manage to get done in > time for merging. > > And even if we did, they would've been too risky so instead of > rushing things and break booting 4.1 on boxes left and right, we > will be very strict and conservative and will take our time with > this to fix and test it properly. > > Reported-by: Yinghai Lu Please put Reported-by: Ying Huang too accord to http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142492905425130&w=2 ... > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150316100628.GD22995@pd.tnic the URL does not work. Thanks Yinghai