Endorsing __randomize_layout for projects! Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: port files to file_ref

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On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 at 19:33, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 at 01:17, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for catching this. So what I did is:
>
> You had better remove the __randomize_layout from 'struct file' too,
> otherwise your patch is entirely broken.
>
> We should damn well remove it anyway, the whole struct randomization
> is just a bad joke. Nobody sane enables it, afaik.

French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) and the American NSA actively
endorse it, and want to put that crap on the things of mandatory
things for projects.
Maybe you can find some curses for them, please? Linus-style and loud, please!

Ced




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