On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:45:05PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You're right. I'm inclined to just revert it, modulo some comments > > > from others. Marcus? > > > > After thinking about this, yes. > > > > I would rather have a working range used here (perhaps like Hugh > > suggested), but feel free to revert the original patch if you are not > > confident with it. > > i'm wondering why you had to try to reinvent the wheel, instead of > picking up exec-shield's remaining bits of randomization implementation > from Fedora, which was tested for a long time and achieves PIE > randomization and more?
Because it is i386 only last time I checked. And it requires relaying out the heap (which you did only for i386), with architecture specific code, which I was too afraid to touch. Ciao, Marcus - 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/
