On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > Offset that has been chosen for kaslr during kernel decompression can be > > > easily computed as a difference between _text and __START_KERNEL. We are > > > already making use of this in dump_kernel_offset() notifier and in > > > arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(). > > > > > > Introduce kaslr_offset() that makes this computation instead of > > > hard-coding it, so that other kernel code (such as live patching) can > > > make > > > use of it. Also convert existing users to make use of it. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> > > > --- > > > > > > It'd be great to potentially have Ack from x86 guys for this patch so > > > that > > > I could take it through livepatching.git with the depending 2/2 patch. > > > Thanks. > > > > > > v1 -> v2: convert arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(), as spotted by Josh > > > Poimboeuf. > > > > FWIW this patch is equivalent transofrmation without any effects on the > > resulting code: > > > > $ diff -u vmlinux.old.asm vmlinux.new.asm > > --- vmlinux.old.asm 2015-04-28 17:55:19.520983368 +0200 > > +++ vmlinux.new.asm 2015-04-28 17:55:24.141206072 +0200 > > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ > > > > -vmlinux.old: file format elf64-x86-64 > > +vmlinux.new: file format elf64-x86-64 > > > > > > Disassembly of section .text: > > $ > > Then those are easy. Please add that piece of infomation to the commit > message. > > With that: > > Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Applied to livepatching.git#for-4.2/kaslr. Thanks, -- 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/
