From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
hpa@zytor.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 05/11] x86: Makefile: Add build and config option for CONFIG_FG_KASLR
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 03:52:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202002060348.7543F4D5@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200206103055.GV14879@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 11:30:55AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 02:39:44PM -0800, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > Allow user to select CONFIG_FG_KASLR if dependencies are met. Change
> > the make file to build with -ffunction-sections if CONFIG_FG_KASLR
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > Makefile | 4 ++++
> > arch/x86/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index c50ef91f6136..41438a921666 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -846,6 +846,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
> > KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -flive-patching=inline-clone)
> > endif
> >
> > +ifdef CONFIG_FG_KASLR
> > +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -ffunction-sections
> > +endif
> [...]
> In particular:
>
> "They prevent optimizations by the compiler and assembler using
> relative locations inside a translation unit since the locations are
> unknown until link time."
I think this mainly a feature of this flag, since it's those relocations
that are used to do the post-shuffle fixups. But yes, I would imagine
this has some negative impact on code generation.
> I suppose in practise this only means tail-calls are affected and will
> no longer use JMP.d8. Or are more things affected?
It's worth looking at. I'm also curious to see how this will interact
with Link Time Optimization.
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-06 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-05 22:39 [RFC PATCH 00/11] Finer grained kernel address space randomization Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] modpost: Support >64K sections Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 12:38 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] x86: tools/relocs: Support >64K section headers Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 12:39 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] x86/boot: Allow a "silent" kaslr random byte fetch Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 1:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-06 11:48 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-06 16:58 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 16:58 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] x86/boot/KASLR: Introduce PRNG for faster shuffling Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 1:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-06 15:10 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-02-07 7:23 ` Jean-Philippe Aumasson
2020-02-07 9:05 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-07 16:52 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-07 16:52 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] x86: Makefile: Add build and config option for CONFIG_FG_KASLR Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-06 11:52 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-02-25 17:55 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-26 19:13 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-26 19:13 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-03-24 21:24 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-03-24 21:24 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-03-25 15:34 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] x86: make sure _etext includes function sections Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 12:26 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-06 13:15 ` Jann Horn
2020-02-06 13:15 ` Jann Horn
2020-02-06 16:27 ` David Laight
2020-02-06 14:39 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06 15:29 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06 16:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-06 14:57 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06 15:45 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06 19:41 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 19:41 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 20:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-07 9:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-10 1:43 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-10 10:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-10 15:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2020-02-10 16:36 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-21 19:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-02-21 23:05 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] x86/tools: Adding relative relocs for randomized functions Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 12:37 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] x86: Add support for finer grained KASLR Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 1:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-06 1:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-06 11:56 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-06 17:36 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 17:36 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-06 12:06 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-06 14:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-06 17:25 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 17:25 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 17:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-06 17:43 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 17:43 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-25 17:49 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-26 19:26 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-26 19:26 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] kallsyms: hide layout and expose seed Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 12:32 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-06 17:51 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 17:51 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 19:27 ` Jann Horn
2020-02-06 19:27 ` Jann Horn
2020-03-02 19:01 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-03-02 19:08 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-02 19:19 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-03-02 19:19 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-27 2:42 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-27 16:02 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-28 3:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] module: Reorder functions Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 12:41 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-11 12:39 ` Jessica Yu
2020-02-06 22:15 ` kbuild test robot
2020-02-06 23:58 ` kbuild test robot
2020-02-05 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] x86/boot: Move "boot heap" out of .bss Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 0:11 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06 0:33 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 0:33 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-06 11:13 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-06 14:25 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06 21:32 ` Kees Cook
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