From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965967AbXCPVv5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:51:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965966AbXCPVv5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:51:57 -0400 Received: from [212.12.190.214] ([212.12.190.214]:32918 "EHLO raad.intranet" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965967AbXCPVv4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:51:56 -0400 From: Al Boldi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ASR: Address Space Randomization (was: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:55:17 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703170055.18047.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ebiederm wrote: > I'm tempted to rant on the pure insanity of address space randomization > but that is a whole other issue... Please do rant; all I can see asr brings is one big performance hit. Of course, it's not enough to just attack this at the kernel, but glibc has to play accordingly as well. Thanks! -- Al