On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Or do you want me to apply it? -- 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
