Hi! > When building with both CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE, > one or the other must be chosen at boot-time. Until now, hibernation > was selected when no choice was made on the command line. > > To make the security benefits of kASLR more widely available to end > users (since the use of hibernation is becoming more rare and kASLR, > already available on x86, will be available on arm64 and MIPS soon), > this changes the default to preferring kASLR over hibernation. Users > wanting hibernation can turn off kASLR by adding "nokaslr" to the kernel > command line. I must say I don't exactly like this patch. Why is kASLR incompatible with hibernation? We can hibernate have 4.3 kernel resume hibernation image of 4.2 kernel (on x86-64, and I have patches for x86). Resuming kernel with different randomization does not look that much different... Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
