[PATCH] powerpc: enable heap randomization for linkstations
Guennadi Liakhovetski
g.liakhovetski at gmx.de
Tue Oct 14 05:05:09 EST 2008
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Rogério Brito wrote:
> The current defconfig for Linkstation/Kuroboxes has the "Disable Heap
> Randomization" option enabled.
>
> Since some of these machines are facing the internet, it helps to have
> heap randomization enabled. This patch enables it.
Same as the previous patch - this is one of options, that users select
according to their needs. If any specific distribution enables this option
by default in their kernels, they can do this too, don't think this is
critical enough to patch the defconfig.
Thanks
Guennadi
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito <rbrito at ime.usp.br>
>
> ---
>
> --- linux/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig.old 2008-10-13 00:33:00.000000000 -0300
> +++ linux/arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig 2008-10-13 01:11:28.000000000 -0300
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> #
> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> -# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27-rc4
> -# Thu Aug 21 00:52:05 2008
> +# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27
> +# Mon Oct 13 01:11:21 2008
> #
> # CONFIG_PPC64 is not set
>
> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
> CONFIG_PRINTK=y
> CONFIG_BUG=y
> CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
> -CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK=y
> +# CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set
> CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
> CONFIG_FUTEX=y
> CONFIG_ANON_INODES=y
> @@ -1211,7 +1211,6 @@ CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m
> # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_ALAUDA is not set
> # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_ONETOUCH is not set
> # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_KARMA is not set
> -# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_SIERRA is not set
> # CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_CYPRESS_ATACB is not set
> # CONFIG_USB_LIBUSUAL is not set
>
>
> --
> Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8
> http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito
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