From: "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] [RFC] Introduce mmap randomization
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 16:55:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <476DC76E7D1DF2438D32BFADF679FC560127DD18@ORSMSX103.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470329589.22643.117.camel@gmail.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Micay [mailto:danielmicay@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 9:53 AM
> To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com; jason@lakedaemon.net; linux-
> mm@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; akpm@linux-
> foundation.org
> Cc: keescook@chromium.org; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; nnk@google.com;
> jeffv@google.com; salyzyn@android.com; dcashman@android.com
> Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] [RFC] Introduce mmap randomization
>
> On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 11:22 -0700, william.c.roberts@intel.com wrote:
> > The recent get_random_long() change in get_random_range() and then the
> > subsequent patches Jason put out, all stemmed from my tinkering with
> > the concept of randomizing mmap.
> >
> > Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, including any feedback
> > indicating that I am idiot.
>
> The RAND_THREADSTACK feature in grsecurity makes the gaps the way I think
> would be ideal, i.e. tracked as part of the appropriate VMA. It would be
> straightforward to make it more general purpose.
I am not familiar with that, thanks for pointing it out. I'll take a look when my time
frees up for this again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-04 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-26 18:22 [PATCH] [RFC] Introduce mmap randomization william.c.roberts
2016-07-26 18:22 ` william.c.roberts
2016-07-26 20:03 ` Jason Cooper
2016-07-26 20:11 ` Roberts, William C
2016-07-26 20:13 ` Roberts, William C
2016-07-26 20:59 ` Jason Cooper
2016-07-26 21:06 ` Roberts, William C
2016-07-26 21:44 ` Jason Cooper
2016-07-26 23:51 ` Dave Hansen
2016-08-02 17:17 ` Roberts, William C
2016-08-03 18:19 ` Roberts, William C
2016-08-02 17:15 ` Roberts, William C
2016-07-27 16:59 ` Nick Kralevich
2016-07-28 21:07 ` Jason Cooper
2016-07-29 10:10 ` [kernel-hardening] " Daniel Micay
2016-07-31 22:24 ` Jason Cooper
2016-08-01 0:24 ` Daniel Micay
2016-08-02 16:57 ` Roberts, William C
2016-08-02 17:02 ` Nick Kralevich
2016-08-14 16:31 ` Pavel Machek 1
2016-07-26 20:12 ` [kernel-hardening] " Rik van Riel
2016-07-26 20:17 ` Roberts, William C
2016-07-26 20:41 ` Nick Kralevich
2016-07-26 21:02 ` Roberts, William C
2016-07-26 21:11 ` Nick Kralevich
2016-08-14 16:22 ` Pavel Machek
2016-08-04 16:53 ` [kernel-hardening] " Daniel Micay
2016-08-04 16:55 ` Roberts, William C [this message]
2016-08-04 17:10 ` Daniel Micay
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