Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sh: Stop printing the virtual memory layout | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> | Date | Thu, 5 Mar 2020 16:18:23 +0100 |
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On 3/5/20 4:10 PM, Arvind Sankar wrote: > For security, don't display the kernel's virtual memory layout. > > Kees Cook points out: > "These have been entirely removed on other architectures, so let's > just do the same for ia32 and remove it unconditionally." > > 071929dbdd86 ("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout") > 1c31d4e96b8c ("ARM: 8820/1: mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout") > 31833332f798 ("m68k/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout") > fd8d0ca25631 ("parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout") > adb1fe9ae2ee ("mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()") Aww, why wasn't this made configurable? I found these memory map printouts very useful for development.
Adrian
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