On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:29 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > chOn Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:52PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote: > > Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the > > kernel to be PIE compatible. > > > > Early at boot, the kernel is mapped at a temporary address while preparing > > the page table. To know the changes needed for the page table with KASLR, > > These manipulations need to be done regardless of whether KASLR is > enabled or not. You're basically accomodating them to PIE. > > > the boot code calculate the difference between the expected address of the > > calculates > > > kernel and the one chosen by KASLR. It does not work with PIE because all > > symbols in code are relatives. Instead of getting the future relocated > > virtual address, you will get the current temporary mapping. > > Please avoid "you", "we" etc personal pronouns in commit messages. > > > Instructions were changed to have absolute 64-bit references. > > From Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst: > > "Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" > instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy > to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change > its behaviour." Sorry for the late reply, busy couple months. I will integrate your feedback in v10. Thanks. > > Thx. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
