On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 04:49:21PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 07:40:51AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > Why do you think they rely on it being static? The VSYSCALL address is
> > not changed for example.
>
> I don't know, that's why I'm asking first. Userspace is kno
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 07:40:51AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> Why do you think they rely on it being static? The VSYSCALL address is
> not changed for example.
I don't know, that's why I'm asking first. Userspace is known to pick
different aspects of the kernel and deciding to use them for wha
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:42:56AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > This patch aligns MODULES_END to the beginning of the Fixmap section.
> > It optimizes the space available for both sections. The address is
> > pre-computed based on the
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:42:56AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> This patch aligns MODULES_END to the beginning of the Fixmap section.
> It optimizes the space available for both sections. The address is
> pre-computed based on the number of pages required by the Fixmap
> section.
>
> It will all
This patch aligns MODULES_END to the beginning of the Fixmap section.
It optimizes the space available for both sections. The address is
pre-computed based on the number of pages required by the Fixmap
section.
It will allow GDT remapping in the Fixmap section. The current
MODULES_END static addre
