On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> > When building with both CONFIG_HIBERNATION and CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE, >> > one or the other must be chosen at boot-time. Until now, hibernation >> > was selected when no choice was made on the command line. >> > >> > To make the security benefits of kASLR more widely available to end >> > users (since the use of hibernation is becoming more rare and kASLR, >> > already available on x86, will be available on arm64 and MIPS soon), >> > this changes the default to preferring kASLR over hibernation. Users >> > wanting hibernation can turn off kASLR by adding "nokaslr" to the kernel >> > command line. >> > >> > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> >> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> >> >> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> >> >> Or do you want me to apply it? > > I don't think this is a good idea, as it turns off emergency hibernation of > laptops - many desktop distros support it by default.
Right, I forgot about this one. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
