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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
	<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	"luto@kernel.org" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"keescook@chromium.org" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"tytso@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/entry/64: randomize kernel stack offset upon system call
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 13:09:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190209120912.GA17668@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2236FBA76BA1254E88B949DDB74E612BA4BB96E7@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 11:38:00AM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote:
> 
>  On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 01:20:09PM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Elena Reshetova wrote:
> > 
> > > I can measure the impact with rdtsc(), I think it is *very* small.
> > > Btw, what should be the good measurement test?
> > > I am not that happy with just looping on fopen-fclose, too
> > > much noise.
> > 
> > IIRC amluto had a nice micro-bench for 'pure' syscall overhead
> > somewhere.
> > 
> > Something like getpid/gettid in a loop should work fairly well, that's a
> > really light syscall to make.
> 
> Thanks! Let me try this for measurements next. I was surprise that
> there nothing  ready-made in perf or rt-tools. You would think
> this must be regularly in a need to measure. 

lmbench has traditionally been used for something like this in the past,
you might want to look at that too.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-09 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08 12:15 [RFC PATCH] Early version of thread stack randomization Elena Reshetova
2019-02-08 12:15 ` [RFC PATCH] x86/entry/64: randomize kernel stack offset upon system call Elena Reshetova
2019-02-08 13:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-08 13:20     ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-02-08 14:26       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-09 11:13         ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-02-09 18:25           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-11  6:39             ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-02-11 15:54               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-12 10:16                 ` Perla, Enrico
2019-02-14  7:52                   ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-02-19 14:47                     ` Jann Horn
2019-02-20 22:20                     ` Kees Cook
2019-02-21  6:37                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-21 13:20                         ` Jann Horn
2019-02-21 15:49                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-20 22:15                   ` Kees Cook
2019-02-20 22:53                     ` Kees Cook
2019-02-21 23:29                       ` Kees Cook
2019-02-27 11:03                         ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-02-21  9:35                     ` Perla, Enrico
2019-02-21 17:23                       ` Kees Cook
2019-02-21 17:48                         ` Perla, Enrico
2019-02-21 19:18                           ` Kees Cook
2019-02-20 21:51         ` Kees Cook
2019-02-08 15:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-09 11:38         ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-02-09 12:09           ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-02-11  6:05             ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-02-08 16:34   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-20 22:03     ` Kees Cook
2019-02-08 21:28   ` Kees Cook
2019-02-11 12:47     ` Reshetova, Elena
2019-02-20 22:04   ` Kees Cook

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