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DateSat, 6 Jan 2007 22:54:17 +0100
FromMarcus Meissner <>
SubjectRe: revert PIE randomization?
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:45:05PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > > You're right. I'm inclined to just revert it, modulo some comments 
> > > from others. Marcus?
> > 
> > After thinking about this, yes.
> > 
> > I would rather have a working range used here (perhaps like Hugh 
> > suggested), but feel free to revert the original patch if you are not 
> > confident with it.
> 
> i'm wondering why you had to try to reinvent the wheel, instead of 
> picking up exec-shield's remaining bits of randomization implementation 
> from Fedora, which was tested for a long time and achieves PIE 
> randomization and more?

Because it is i386 only last time I checked.

And it requires relaying out the heap (which you did only for i386), with
architecture specific code, which I was too afraid to touch.

Ciao, Marcus
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