On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 03:56:29PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:23:43 +0200 > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 01:53:06PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > > > Currently, kallsyms kernel code copes with symbols with the same > > > name by indexing them according to their position in vmlinux and > > > requiring to provide an index of the desired symbol. This is not > > > really quite reliable and is fragile to any features performing > > > symbol or section manipulations such as FG-KASLR. > > > > Ah, here's the reasoning, stuff like this should go into the 0/X message > > too, right? > > > > Anyway, what is currently broken that requires this? What will this > > make easier in the future? What in the future will depend on this? > > 2) FG-KASLR will depend and probably some more crazy hardening > stuff. And/or perf-based function/symbol placement, which is > in the "discuss and dream sometimes" stage. I have no idea what "FG-KASLR" is. Why not submit these changes when whatever that is is ready for submission? thanks, greg k-h
