Re: [PATCH] User stack pointer randomisation

["Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

On 7/19/07, Nigel Stephens <nigel@mips.com> wrote:
> Hmm, the kernel isn't necessarily built using the same ABI as
> applications. While this will in fact do the right thing for O32 apps
Hey that's true.

> running on 64-bit kernels, it's kind of by accident, and suggests some
> equivalence which isn't really there. Would it be better to force 16
> byte alignment (the maximum alignment required by any ABI) in all cases,
> rather than relying on the kernel's ALMASK being correct for user
> applications? Just a thought.
Again I totaly agree, this seems to me cleaner to force 16 bytes
alignment rather than using ALMASK which is part of the kernel
context.

Let's go for a take #3 if Ralf has no objection.

Thanks
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              Franck