On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:27 PM Randy Dunlap [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

(for several patches in this series:)
The commit message is confusing.  See below.

Thanks for the edits, I will change the different commit messages.

On 05/23/2018 12:54 PM, Thomas Garnier wrote:

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Adapt module loading to support PIE relocations. Generate dynamic GOT if
a symbol requires it but no entry exist in the kernel GOT.

                                     exists

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Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extended the

                                                 will allow us to extend

the

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KASLR randomization range below the -2G memory limit.

Does that say "below th negative 2G memory limit"?
I don't get it.

Yes, below 0xffffffff80000000 basically. I think I will just say that.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <redacted>
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 arch/x86/Makefile               |   4 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/module.h   |  11 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h |   4 +
 arch/x86/kernel/module.c        | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/module.lds      |   3 +
 5 files changed, 198 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/module.lds

Thanks,
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~Randy

-- 
Thomas