On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, H.J. Lu wrote: > >> so that he could load his program compiled as PIE above 4GB. > >> If kernel is changed not to honor it, his program won't work any more. > >> In normal case, PIE has zero vaddr and this doesn't apply. > >> > > > > That doesn't seem to be PIE at all, and if it is PIE, then it should be > > relocatable (I agree btw with randomizing upward from the selected address.) > > Kernel can consider PIE with non-zero vaddr isn't real PIE.
Why? I still think PIE with non-zero vaddr should be randomized by putting random offset to the vaddr. Don't you think so? Why? -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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/
