On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 01:03:23PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > 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).
Send it to linux-keernel again and we'll override their bulllshit. We can make exceptions from our coding style and preference just because they are idiots. And the whole ACPI mess needs urgent de-obsfucation anyway.
