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?
