Re: [PATCH v4 05/14] arm64, mm: Make randomization selected by generic topdown mmap layout

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Jun 03 2019 - 13:43:58 EST


On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 09:47:37AM -0400, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> This commits selects ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE when an arch uses the generic
> topdown mmap layout functions so that this security feature is on by
> default.
> Note that this commit also removes the possibility for arm64 to have elf
> randomization and no MMU: without MMU, the security added by randomization
> is worth nothing.

Not planning on this anytime soon ;).

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>