On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * 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. Right, I forgot about this one. Thanks, Rafael -- 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
