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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: 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,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Function Granular KASLR
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 10:45:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202008031043.FE182E9@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c4d88b-86db-47e9-4299-3fac45a7e3fd@virtuozzo.com>

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?

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200717170008.5949-1-kristen@linux.intel.com>
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 [this message]
2020-08-03 18:17       ` Joe Lawrence
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

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