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Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time

From Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time
Date 2016-05-10 00:30 +0200
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On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> The exact reason to have assigning in functions.
>>
>> pgt_data address could be changed during kernel relocation.
>> so can not assigned during compiling time.
>
> Ah-ha, that explains why I had to keep it on the stack. Thanks for the
> clarification!

My fault, I should put that comment in the code at first place.

Thanks

Yinghai

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[PATCH v7 0/9] x86/KASLR: Randomize virtual address separately Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-05-09 22:30 +0200
  [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-05-09 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-05-10 00:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-05-10 00:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-05-10 00:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-05-10 00:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-05-10 08:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-05-10 13:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-05-10 00:30 +0200
    [tip:x86/boot] x86/KASLR: Initialize mapping_info every time tip-bot for Kees Cook <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-05-10 10:50 +0200
  [PATCH v7 8/9] x86/KASLR: Add physical address randomization >4G Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-05-09 22:30 +0200
  [PATCH v7 2/9] x86/boot: Add missing file header comments Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-05-09 22:30 +0200
    [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Add missing file header comments tip-bot for Kees Cook <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-05-10 10:50 +0200

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