Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: x86: bugfix about kASLR

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Nov 11 2015 - 11:21:01 EST


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:19:58PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>
> > If Chris's smaller patch is merged before Jessica's bigger patch set,
> > Jessica's patches can be rebased on top of Chris's to keep the new
> > sympos-based addressing scheme.
> >
> > Or vice versa: if Jessica's patches are merged first, then Chris's can
> > be rebased. Either way, Chris's patches will obsolete this one.
>
> My current plan is to take Zhou's simple kASLR offset fix for 4.4 still
> (it's my fault that I overlooked this when putting kASLR bits in place
> anyway), and we'll see what ends up being merged for 4.5+.

Ok, sounds fine to me.

--
Josh
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