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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: "'Reshetova, Elena'" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	'Theodore Ts'o' <tytso@mit.edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"keescook@chromium.org" <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: 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>,
	"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: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:33:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf7cb17c44224fe29daf5ba66d908b2b@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612BA4C5E473@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com>

From: Reshetova, Elena
> Sent: 24 April 2019 12:43
>
> Sorry for the delay - Easter holidays + I was trying to arrange my brain around proposed options.
> Here what I think our options are with regards to the source of randomness:
> 
> 1) rdtsc or variations based on it (David proposed some CRC-based variants for example)

Do I remember something about rdtsc being made less accurate in order to
make it (slightly) more difficult to use it to measure timing attacks?

If true, and it applies to the kernel (eg in a VM) then this is probably
all pointless!

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-24 13:32 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 [this message]
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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