On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 05:57:14PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>
> > Offset that has been chosen for kaslr during kernel decompression can be
> > easily computed as a difference between _text and __START_KERNEL. We are
> > already making use of this in dump_kernel_offset() notifier and in
> > arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo().
> >
> > Introduce kaslr_offset() that makes this computation instead of
> > hard-coding it, so that other kernel code (such as live patching) can make
> > use of it. Also convert existing users to make use of it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > It'd be great to potentially have Ack from x86 guys for this patch so that
> > I could take it through livepatching.git with the depending 2/2 patch.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > v1 -> v2: convert arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(), as spotted by Josh
> > Poimboeuf.
>
> FWIW this patch is equivalent transofrmation without any effects on the
> resulting code:
>
> $ diff -u vmlinux.old.asm vmlinux.new.asm
> --- vmlinux.old.asm 2015-04-28 17:55:19.520983368 +0200
> +++ vmlinux.new.asm 2015-04-28 17:55:24.141206072 +0200
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>
> -vmlinux.old: file format elf64-x86-64
> +vmlinux.new: file format elf64-x86-64
>
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
> $
Then those are easy. Please add that piece of infomation to the commit
message.
With that:
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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