From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/entry/64: randomize kernel stack offset upon syscall
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 18:43:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190502164325.GA115950@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVBXZNAKGRXm0_txKGjqKnjx30Eb05hesye8M50D4A8Mw@mail.gmail.com>
* Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 8 gigabits/sec sounds good throughput in principle, if there's no
> > scalability pathologies with that.
>
> The latency is horrible.
Latency would be amortized via batching anyway, so 8 gigabits/sec
suggests something on the order of magnitude of 4 bits per cycle, right?
With 64 bits extraction at a time that would be 16 cycles per 64-bit
word, which isn't too bad, is it?
But you are right that get_random_bytes() is probably faster, and also
more generic.
> > It would also be nice to know whether RDRAND does buffering
> > *internally*,
>
> Not in a useful way :(
Too bad ...
> > Any non-CPU source of randomness for system calls and plans to add
> > several extra function calls to every x86 system call is crazy talk I
> > believe...
>
> I think that, in practice, the only real downside to enabling this
> thing will be the jitter in syscall times. Although we could decide
> that the benefit is a bit dubious and the whole thing isn't worth it.
> But it will definitely be optional.
Making it "optional" is not really a technical argument in any way
though, either distros enable it in which case it's a de-facto default
setting, or they don't, in which case it de-facto almost doesn't exist.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-02 16:43 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
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 [this message]
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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