Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:49:10 +0100 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14 | From | Richard Weinberger <> |
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On 01/26/2014 02:16 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> >> Currently we print the kernel offset only upon a panic() using the >> panic notifier list. >> This way it does not show up if the kernel hits a BUG() in process >> context or something less critical. >> Wouldn't make more sense to report the offset in every dump_stack() or >> show_regs() call? > > No, because that information is available to user space unless we panic.
Didn't you mean non-root? I thought one has to set dmesg_restrict anyways if kASLR is used.
And isn't the offset available to perf too? Of course only for root, but still user space.
-- Thanks, //richard
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