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
next prev parent 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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