On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 01:17:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> Since the ACPICA source is maintained externally to the kernel, we can >> neither switch it to designated initializers nor mark it >> __no_randomize_layout. Until ACPICA-upstream changes[1] land to handle the >> designated initialization, explicitly skip it in the plugin. >> >> [1] https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/248 > > I'd just overried the ACPIA bullshit process and just include these > changes, as they are a major improvement independent of any > reandomization.
Well... I'd rather not. It's been explicitly NAKed by them already, which is why I sent the upstream solution (though it's being ignored currently). I don't want this to block randstruct any longer, so that's why I took a whitelisting approach here. -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
