Re: [PATCH v5 01/21] x86, KASLR: Remove unneeded boot_params argument

2016-04-15 Thread Kees Cook
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Kees Cook wrote: > >> From: Yinghai Lu >> >> Since the boot_params can be found using the real_mode global variable, >> there is >> no need to pass around a pointer to it. This slightly simplifies the >> choose_kernel_location function

Re: [PATCH v5 01/21] x86, KASLR: Remove unneeded boot_params argument

2016-04-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Kees Cook wrote: > From: Yinghai Lu > > Since the boot_params can be found using the real_mode global variable, there > is > no need to pass around a pointer to it. This slightly simplifies the > choose_kernel_location function and its callers. Yeah, so I really wanted to apply this seri

[PATCH v5 01/21] x86, KASLR: Remove unneeded boot_params argument

2016-04-14 Thread Kees Cook
From: Yinghai Lu Since the boot_params can be found using the real_mode global variable, there is no need to pass around a pointer to it. This slightly simplifies the choose_kernel_location function and its callers. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu [kees: rewrote changelog] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook -