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From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	 arjan@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] x86: Add support for function granular KASLR
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 14:42:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c8685090dd36ab0175ae91d1421f4cd7fb6aff0.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202005211301.4853672E2@keescook>

Hi Kees,
Thanks for your review - I will incorporate what I can into v3, or
explain why not once I give it a try :).

On Thu, 2020-05-21 at 14:08 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > 
<snip>

> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 09:56:38AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi
> wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * sometimes we are updating a relative offset that would
> > +	 * normally be relative to the next instruction (such as a
> > call).
> > +	 * In this case to calculate the target, you need to add 32bits
> > to
> > +	 * the pc to get the next instruction value. However, sometimes
> > +	 * targets are just data that was stored in a table such as
> > ksymtab
> > +	 * or cpu alternatives. In this case our target is not relative
> > to
> > +	 * the next instruction.
> > +	 */
> 
> Excellent and scary comment. ;) Was this found by trial and error?
> That
> sounds "fun" to debug. :P

This did suck to debug. Thank goodness for debugging with gdb in a VM.
As you know, I had previously had a patch to use a prand to be able to
retain the same layout across boots, and that came in handy here. While
we decided to not submit this functionality with this initial merge
attempt, I will add it on in the future as it does make debugging much
easier when you can reliably duplicate failure modes.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-21 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-21 16:56 [PATCH v2 0/9] Function Granular KASLR Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] objtool: Do not assume order of parent/child functions Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] x86: tools/relocs: Support >64K section headers Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] x86/boot: Allow a "silent" kaslr random byte fetch Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] x86: Makefile: Add build and config option for CONFIG_FG_KASLR Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 20:00   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] x86: Make sure _etext includes function sections Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 18:11   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] x86/tools: Add relative relocs for randomized functions Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 19:54   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] x86: Add support for function granular KASLR Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 21:08   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-21 21:42     ` Kristen Carlson Accardi [this message]
2020-06-04 17:27     ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-06-04 22:37       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] kallsyms: Hide layout Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 21:14   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-21 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] module: Reorder functions Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 21:33   ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 20:14     ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-06-09 20:42       ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 20:59         ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-05-21 21:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Function Granular KASLR Kees Cook
2020-05-21 22:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-21 23:30   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-21 23:43     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-21 23:44     ` Kristen Carlson Accardi

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