On Fri, 11 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I sent this patch 5 days ago, nobody replied. So I am giving it > > second attempt. Andrew, is it possible to test this in -mm branch? > > Original mail follows: > > this is something like reaction to this thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/6/124. I hope I was able to separate the > > PIE randomization part correctly. > I don't know what to do with this. The changelog doesn't tell me what PIE > randomization _is_, nor why the kernel would want to do it. "Randomizing > -pie compiled binaries" sounds fairly undesirable, actually ;)
I think it's precisely what we want to do in case the randomize_va_space is set to 1, don't we? (I haven't yet gone throught the patch though, so I am not sure whether this is the case). We already have stack randomization and mmap() base randomization but executable base randomization (which is of course only feasible for -pie executables) and brk() randomization still seem to be missing to make it complete. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
