Hi!
> Since kASLR and Hibernation can not currently coexist at runtime
> on x86, the default behavior was to disable kASLR by default when
> CONFIG_HIBERNATION was present (to retain original behavior).
>
> The behavior of kASLR on arm64 (and soon MIPS) is to be enabled by
> default when selected at build time. Since arm64 Hibernation does not
> conflict with kASLR, this fixes the hibernation argument parsing to be
> x86-specific. Additionally, since end users want to be able to select
> kASLR on x86 by default at build time, create CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE_ON
> that is present only on x86.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
I believe this is bad idea. arm64 shows that kaslr and hibernation can
coexist, and hibernation is still useful when your battery runs out.
Pavel
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