On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 10:34:29PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:19:59PM -0400, Masayoshi Mizuma wrote: > > Baoquan and Chao, thank you for your comments! > > > > Boris, the patches has been merged to linux-next. > > First of all, please do not top-post. > > Even if they're in linux-next, that doesn't mean they should go upstream > while there are still issues to be hammered out. Got it, thanks. > > In this particular case, if Chao Fan's patchset shapes up in a decent > form to be upstreamed, we don't need the cmdline parameter anymore, do > we? > > Because we'll have the SRAT parsing and proper KASLR limits ready and > working automatically, I'd say. Yes, but I think we need to arrange the Chao's SRAT parsing to be used from kernel_randomize_memory() because Chao's approach needs the SRAT parsing before extract kernel and the padding size calculation needs the parsing in start_kernel(), so they are living in different life cycle and space. Thanks, Masa
