On 04/09/2013 11:46 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> Ah-ha! Yes, I see now when comparing the debug/kernel_page_tables
> reports. It's just the High Kernel Mapping that we care about.
> Addresses outside that range are less of a leak. Excellent, then GDT
> may not be a problem. Whew.
>
It does beg the question if we need to randomize kmalloc... which could
have issues by itself.
-hpa
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