From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
arjan@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Function Granular KASLR
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:17:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc6d2289-af97-5cf8-a4bb-77c2b0b8375c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202008031043.FE182E9@keescook>
On 8/3/20 1:45 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:39:32PM +0300, Evgenii Shatokhin wrote:
>> There are at least 2 places where high-order memory allocations might happen
>> during module loading. Such allocations may fail if memory is fragmented,
>> while physically contiguous memory areas are not really needed there. I
>> suggest to switch to kvmalloc/kvfree there.
>
> While this does seem to be the right solution for the extant problem, I
> do want to take a moment and ask if the function sections need to be
> exposed at all? What tools use this information, and do they just want
> to see the bounds of the code region? (i.e. the start/end of all the
> .text* sections) Perhaps .text.* could be excluded from the sysfs
> section list?
>
[[cc += FChE, see [0] for Evgenii's full mail ]]
It looks like debugging tools like systemtap [1], gdb [2] and its
add-symbol-file cmd, etc. peek at the /sys/module/<MOD>/section/ info.
But yeah, it would be preferable if we didn't export a long sysfs
representation if nobody actually needs it.
[0]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e9c4d88b-86db-47e9-4299-3fac45a7e3fd@virtuozzo.com/
[1] https://fossies.org/linux/systemtap/staprun/staprun.c
[2]
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/linux-device-drivers/0596005903/ch04.html#linuxdrive3-CHP-4-SECT-6.1
-- Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-03 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 16:59 [PATCH v4 00/10] Function Granular KASLR Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 16:59 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] objtool: Do not assume order of parent/child functions Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 16:59 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] x86: tools/relocs: Support >64K section headers Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] x86/boot: Allow a "silent" kaslr random byte fetch Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] x86: Makefile: Add build and config option for CONFIG_FG_KASLR Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] x86: Make sure _etext includes function sections Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] x86/tools: Add relative relocs for randomized functions Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] x86/boot/compressed: Avoid duplicate malloc() implementations Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] x86: Add support for function granular KASLR Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] kallsyms: Hide layout Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-20 1:25 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-20 16:59 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-17 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] module: Reorder functions Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-28 17:29 ` Jessica Yu
2020-07-22 9:27 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] Function Granular KASLR Miroslav Benes
2020-07-22 14:39 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-22 14:51 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-07-22 14:56 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-07-22 18:24 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-22 16:07 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-07-22 19:42 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-22 19:56 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-07-22 21:33 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-08-21 23:02 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-08-25 16:16 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-08-28 10:21 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-08-28 19:24 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-23 22:59 ` Fangrui Song
2021-01-25 17:21 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-08-03 11:39 ` Evgenii Shatokhin
2020-08-03 17:45 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-03 18:17 ` Joe Lawrence [this message]
2020-08-03 19:38 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-08-03 20:11 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-03 21:12 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-08-03 21:41 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-04 0:48 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-08-04 17:04 ` Jessica Yu
2020-08-04 18:23 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-08-07 16:38 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-08-07 17:20 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-10 16:10 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-08-12 17:18 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-08-06 15:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2020-08-06 19:24 ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-08-06 19:27 ` Kees Cook
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