On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 3:49 AM Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:24:08AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote: > > Change the assembly code to use only relative references of symbols for the > > kernel to be PIE compatible. > > > > Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extend the > > KASLR randomization range below 0xffffffff80000000. > > This sentence is auto-sprinkled in a bunch of commit messages. Sounds to > me it should be rather somewhere in the 0/n message as a justification > for the feature but not in every other commit message...?
I go into more details in the compose message but I wanted a small sentence explaining why PIE changes are being made. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
