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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, "tytso@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"luto@kernel.org" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"luto@amacapital.net" <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jpoimboe@redhat.com" <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	"keescook@chromium.org" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"jannh@google.com" <jannh@google.com>,
	"Perla, Enrico" <enrico.perla@intel.com>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86/entry/64: randomize kernel stack offset upon syscall
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:45:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01914abbfc1a4053897d8d87a63e3411@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190416120822.GV11158@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

From: Peter Zijlstra
> Sent: 16 April 2019 13:08
...
> So the argument against using TSC directly was that it might be easy to
> guess most of the TSC bits in timing attack. But IIRC there is fairly
> solid evidence that the lowest TSC bits are very hard to guess and might
> in fact be a very good random source.
> 
> So what one could do, is for each invocation mix in the low (2?) bits of
> the TSC into a per-cpu/task PRNG state. By always adding some fresh
> entropy it would become very hard indeed to predict the outcome, even
> for otherwise 'trivial' PRNGs.

You could just feed 8 bits of TSC into a CRC.
Or even xor the entire TSC over a CRC state and then cycle it at least 6 bits.
Probably doesn't matter which CRC - but you may want one that is
cheap in software.
Even a 16bit CRC might be enough.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-16 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-15  6:09 [PATCH] x86/entry/64: randomize kernel stack offset upon syscall Elena Reshetova
2019-04-15  7:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-15  8:44   ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-16  7:34     ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-16 11:10       ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-16 12:08         ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-16 12:45           ` David Laight [this message]
2019-04-16 15:43             ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-04-16 16:07               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-16 16:47               ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-17  9:28                 ` David Laight
2019-04-17 15:15                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-04-17 15:40                     ` Kees Cook
2019-04-17 15:53                     ` David Laight
2019-04-24 11:42                       ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-24 13:33                         ` David Laight
2019-04-25 11:23                           ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-26 11:33                         ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-26 14:01                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-04-26 17:44                             ` Eric Biggers
2019-04-26 18:02                               ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-04-27 13:59                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-29  8:04                               ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-26 18:34                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-29  7:46                               ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-29 16:08                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-30 17:51                                   ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-30 18:01                                     ` Kees Cook
2019-05-01  8:23                                     ` David Laight
2019-05-02  8:07                                       ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-01  8:41                                     ` David Laight
2019-05-01 23:33                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-02  8:15                                       ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-02  9:23                                         ` David Laight
2019-05-02 14:47                                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-02 15:08                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-02 16:32                                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-02 16:43                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-03 16:40                                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-02 16:34                                               ` David Laight
2019-05-02 16:45                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-03 16:17                                                   ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-03 16:40                                                     ` David Laight
2019-05-03 19:10                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-06  6:47                                                         ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-06  7:01                                                       ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-08 11:18                                                       ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-08 11:32                                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-08 13:22                                                           ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-09  5:59                                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-09  7:01                                                               ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-09  8:43                                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-11 22:45                                                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-12  0:12                                                                     ` Kees Cook
2019-05-12  8:02                                                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2019-05-12 14:33                                                                         ` Kees Cook
2019-05-28 12:28                                                                           ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-28 13:33                                                                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-05-29 10:13                                                                               ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-29 10:51                                                                                 ` David Laight
2019-05-29 18:35                                                                                 ` Kees Cook
2019-05-29 18:37                                                                                 ` Kees Cook
2019-07-29 11:41                                                                                   ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-07-30 18:07                                                                                     ` Kees Cook
2019-08-01  6:35                                                                                     ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-09  7:03                                                               ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-05-06  7:32                                               ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-29  7:49                             ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-26 17:37                           ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2019-04-17  6:24               ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-16 18:19           ` Reshetova, Elena
     [not found] <20190408061358.21288-1-elena.reshetova@intel.com>
2019-04-08 12:49 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-04-08 13:30   ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-08 16:21     ` Kees Cook
2019-04-10  8:26   ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-10  9:00     ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-10 10:17       ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-10 10:24       ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-10 14:52         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-12  5:36           ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-04-12 21:16             ` Andy Lutomirski

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