Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:35:24 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Shawn Webb <lattera@gmail.com>, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] ASLR Whitepaper and Candidate Final Patch Message-ID: <96C72773-3239-427E-A90B-D05FF0F5B782@freebsd.org>
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(Assuming @FreeBSD addresses are subscribed to arch, or check the = archives) FWIW, The issues I pointed out are still standing: - It is yet undetermined what the performance effect will be, and it is = not clear (but seems likely from past measurements) if there will be a = performance hit even when ASLR is off. -Apparently there are applications that will segfault (?). I wouldn=92t object to see it in the tree though: it has obviously been = the result of a lot of work and it is configurable and well integrated. = It will certainly have to be some time in the tree and undergo extensive = testing before turning it on by default though so it sounds reasonable = to bring it in but leave it initially inactive. Pedro.=
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