ping ! any update on this ? As i understand, only powerpc and s390 uses the randomize_et_dyn call; for all other architecture this is an obsolete function call.
this call for another patch where randomize_et_dyn is removed. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Vineeth Vijayan <vvija...@mvista.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 05:45:26 UTC, Vineeth Vijayan wrote: >>> Right now there is no way to disable TEXT randomization on a PPC32 >>> machine. text randomization happens even in the case of "echo 0 > >>> /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space" >> >> Yeah it seems to happen on ppc64 too. >> >>> This happens due to the incorrect definition of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE at >>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h >> >> What is incorrect about it? We are not the only arch that does that. >> > > I think we are one of the arch which does it. > The same has been tested on x86 and arm, where ELF_ET_DYN_BASE doesn’t > use randomize_et_dyn call, and it works properly as per the user-space > definition of randomization; > > (i.e when at "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space", TEXT > randomization should not happen.) > >> I'm not clear on what has changed to break this? >> >> cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
