Re: [PATCH] arm64: defconfig: update and enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Jun 24 2019 - 05:51:30 EST


On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 08:46:58AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 05:32:42PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > Generated via:
> > $ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make defconfig
> > $ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make menuconfig
> > <enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE aka KASLR>
> > $ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make savedefconfig
> > $ mv defconfig arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
[...]
> Irrespective of the above, I know Catalin was running into issues with his
> automated tests where the kernel would die silently during early boot with
> some seeds. That's a bit rubbish if it's still the case -- Catalin?

I stopped seeing these failures about 1-2 months ago, not sure exactly
what changed. I'm ok to enable KASLR in defconfig.

--
Catalin