On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:59:23AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > In addition to what you've said, I have only one proposal: we revert > > the whole crap and do it again, this time nice and clean in tip. It'll > > stay there as long as it has to. No half-arsed commit messages, no > > misunderstood crap, no lala code f*ckery. Whatever it takes, as long as > > it takes. > > And here it is: > > --- > From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:57:56 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Revert "x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation" > > This reverts commit f47233c2d34f243ecdaac179c3408a39ff9216a7. > > The main reason for the revert is that in order to make this work, we > need non-trivial changes to the x86 boot code which we didn't manage to > get done in time for merging. > > And even if we did, they would've been too risky so instead of rushing > things and break booting 4.1 on boxes left and right, we will be very > strict and conservative and will take our time with this to fix and test > it properly. > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Agreed. Let's work on a better refresh for 4.1+. The fix attempts were quite chaotic. Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
