14 Jul
2020
14 Jul
'20
4:10 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 9:08 AM Joel Fernandes joel@joelfernandes.org wrote:
I was thinking we should not call move_page_tables() with overlapping ranges at all, just to keep things simple.
No, we're not breaking the existing stack movement code just to keep things simple.
The rule is "make it as simple as possible, but no simpler".
And "as possible" in the case of Linux means "no breaking of old interfaces". The stack randomization movement most certainly counts.
Linus