Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer

[Arjan van de Ven]

> I thought that this was the original purpose of the "stack randomization" 
> which is shipped for example by RedHat kernels, as the randomization is 
> quite small and easy to bruteforce, so it can't serve too much as a buffer 
> overflow protection.

correct; that was for the p4 hyperthreading case (that code fwiw is
still in the 2.6 mainline kernel and active; it randomizes over an 8k
region for this purpose)

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