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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2016-06-14 00:10:02 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-06-26 12:32:03 +0200
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parentMAINTAINERS: Update the Calgary IOMMU entry (diff)
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x86/KASLR, x86/power: Remove x86 hibernation restrictions
With the following fix: 70595b479ce1 ("x86/power/64: Fix crash whan the hibernation code passes control to the image kernel") ... there is no longer a problem with hibernation resuming a KASLR-booted kernel image, so remove the restriction. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160613221002.GA29719@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 82b42c958d1c..fa8c6d470ad2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1803,12 +1803,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
- kaslr/nokaslr [X86]
- Enable/disable kernel and module base offset ASLR
- (Address Space Layout Randomization) if built into
- the kernel. When CONFIG_HIBERNATION is selected,
- kASLR is disabled by default. When kASLR is enabled,
- hibernation will be disabled.
+ nokaslr [KNL]
+ When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, this disables
+ kernel and module base offset ASLR (Address Space
+ Layout Randomization).
keepinitrd [HW,ARM]