From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v9 4/7] x86/entry: Erase kernel stack in syscall_trace_enter()
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:58:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrWpt3ckn0jpDS_J7Da053-gi27ddbK8zEBicpeFWuhP_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyknMsiT3efAeOyf32O2NJjD9vt0XxtAegFVmmn+pvxgA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:30 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I was actually hoping that the clang people would get rid of those,
> but they only seemed to care about VLA's in structures, not about them
> in general ;(
>
> I detest VLA's, we really shouldn't use them. I'm sorry we have any.
Then we need to fix our abysmal synchronous crypto API, which, AFAICT,
is the primary user of on-stack VLAs in the kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-06 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-03 20:00 [PATCH RFC v9 0/7] Introduce the STACKLEAK feature and a test for it Alexander Popov
2018-03-03 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC v9 1/7] gcc-plugins: Clean up the cgraph_create_edge* macros Alexander Popov
2018-03-03 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC v9 2/7] x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls Alexander Popov
2018-03-05 16:41 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 19:43 ` Laura Abbott
2018-03-05 19:50 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 20:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-05 21:21 ` Alexander Popov
2018-03-05 21:36 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-21 11:04 ` Alexander Popov
2018-03-21 15:33 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-22 20:56 ` Alexander Popov
2018-03-26 17:32 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-26 17:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-03 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC v9 3/7] gcc-plugins: Add STACKLEAK plugin for tracking the kernel stack Alexander Popov
2018-03-03 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC v9 4/7] x86/entry: Erase kernel stack in syscall_trace_enter() Alexander Popov
2018-03-05 19:40 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 20:06 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-05 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-05 21:02 ` Alexander Popov
2018-03-05 21:02 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-05 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-05 22:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 0:56 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-06 4:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 17:58 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2018-03-06 7:56 ` [OLD PATCH] net: recvmsg: Unconditionally zero struct sockaddr_storage " Ingo Molnar
2018-03-06 7:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-06 8:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-06 15:16 ` Daniel Micay
2018-03-06 15:28 ` Daniel Micay
2018-03-06 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 19:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-06 19:07 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-03-06 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 20:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-06 21:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 21:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-06 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 22:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-06 22:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 21:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-06 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 21:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 22:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-06 22:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 22:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-06 23:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-12 8:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-12 9:00 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-03-12 9:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-03-06 21:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-06 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-05 20:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-03 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC v9 5/7] lkdtm: Add a test for STACKLEAK Alexander Popov
2018-03-03 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC v9 6/7] fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system Alexander Popov
2018-03-03 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC v9 7/7] doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature Alexander Popov
2018-03-05 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v9 0/7] Introduce the STACKLEAK feature and a test for it Kees Cook
2018-03-05 19:42 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 20:02 ` Kees Cook
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