Re: [PATCH v8 07/14] kallsyms: Hide layout

On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 at 11:01, Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 11:32:07PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:

quoted

From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <redacted>

This patch makes /proc/kallsyms display in a random order, rather
than sorted by address in order to hide the newly randomized address
layout.

Is there a reason to not always do this? That is, why are we keeping two
copies of this code around? Less code is more better etc..

+1.

IIRC I made the exact same point when this patch was sent out by
Kristen a while ago.