On 11/09/2011 04:32 PM, David Daney wrote:

Randomization of PIE load address is hard coded in binfmt_elf.c for
X86 and ARM.  Create a new Kconfig variable
(CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE) for this and use it instead.
Thus architecture specific policy is pushed out of the generic
binfmt_elf.c and into the architecture Kconfig files.

X86 and ARM Kconfigs are modified to select the new variable so there
is no change in behavior.  A follow on patch will select it for MIPS
too.

Cc: Russell King <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Daney <redacted>

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>