* Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? I don't think this is a good idea, as it turns off emergency hibernation of laptops - many desktop distros support it by default. Thanks, Ingo -- 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
