Re: [PATCH v2 11/20] randstruct: Disable randomization of ACPICA structs

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat May 27 2017 - 04:42:53 EST


On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 01:17:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Since the ACPICA source is maintained externally to the kernel, we can
> neither switch it to designated initializers nor mark it
> __no_randomize_layout. Until ACPICA-upstream changes[1] land to handle the
> designated initialization, explicitly skip it in the plugin.
>
> [1] https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/248

I'd just overried the ACPIA bullshit process and just include these
changes, as they are a major improvement independent of any
reandomization.