On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:36:09 -0700 Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> >> Fixes: 29e48ce87f1e ("task_struct: Allow randomized") >> Cc: [email protected] > > Why cc:stable?
Since the padding existed in all configs, it's kind of an ugly wart and should likely be fixed up for 4.14 and 4.15 -stable. > So the mysterious 40 byte bloat is still present in this case? Given how insane[1] task_struct can end up under randstruct, these 40 bytes aren't too bad. I've added fixing this to the randstruct to-do list, but I don't view it as high priority. -Kees [1] https://git.kernel.org/linus/ffa47aa678cfaa9b88e8a26cfb115b4768325121 -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
