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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>,
	 kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/init: Stop printing pgt_buf addresses
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 19:57:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <beb95a8af767ab38d694f59847d2f2f6692e115a.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200523015129.GA717759@rani.riverdale.lan>

On Fri, 2020-05-22 at 21:51 -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 06:11:20PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > This currently leaks kernel physical addresses into userspace.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> > index e7bb483557c9..dc4711f09cdc 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
> > @@ -121,8 +121,6 @@ __ref void *alloc_low_pages(unsigned int num)
> >  	} else {
> >  		pfn = pgt_buf_end;
> >  		pgt_buf_end += num;
> > -		printk(KERN_DEBUG "BRK [%#010lx, %#010lx] PGTABLE\n",
> > -			pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, (pgt_buf_end << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
> > -- 
> > 2.24.1
> > 
> 
> Ping.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200229231120.1147527-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu/

If this output is at all valuable,
perhaps emit them as hashed pointers?

Maybe:

---
 arch/x86/mm/init.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 1bba16c5742b..44f0d6592c7e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -121,8 +121,9 @@ __ref void *alloc_low_pages(unsigned int num)
 	} else {
 		pfn = pgt_buf_end;
 		pgt_buf_end += num;
-		printk(KERN_DEBUG "BRK [%#010lx, %#010lx] PGTABLE\n",
-			pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, (pgt_buf_end << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "BRK [0x%8p, 0x%8p] PGTABLE\n",
+		       (void *)(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT),
+		       (void *)((pgt_buf_end << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1));
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {



      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-23  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-29 23:11 [PATCH] x86/mm/init: Stop printing pgt_buf addresses Arvind Sankar
2020-02-29 23:23 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-09 22:19 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-09 22:35   ` Dave Hansen
2020-05-23  1:51 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-05-23  2:57   ` Joe Perches [this message]

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