x86/mm/init/32: Stop printing the virtual memory layout

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For security reasons, don't display the kernel's virtual memory layout.

Kees Cook points out:
"These have been entirely removed on other architectures, so let's
just do the same for ia32 and remove it unconditionally."

071929dbdd ("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
1c31d4e96b ("ARM: 8820/1: mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
31833332f7 ("m68k/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
fd8d0ca256 ("parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout")
adb1fe9ae2 ("mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()")

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200305150152.831697-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu

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Arvind Sankar 2020-03-05 10:01:52 -05:00 • committed by Thomas Gleixner

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