From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA49C433EF for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 22:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S242285AbhL3WgG (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:36:06 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34020 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S242253AbhL3WgE (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:36:04 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:190:11c2::b:1457]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7EFF3C061574; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 14:36:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from zn.tnic (dslb-088-067-202-008.088.067.pools.vodafone-ip.de [88.67.202.8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 7F75A1EC047E; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:35:58 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1640903758; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=+KKK4IGlu+3zrarQbibZbQT1tUBU7oUm6HKnQkbdmKE=; b=oPfknaqMGvn+62MYRbhhvqwCuLoSX5p58SSeK+N4oF9aZ7sLgUjP1n1DDIVFgf4UX6SjD4 BtjJXy4Yp4keYM2xcOguHwNaMZcxUdIa08dtUo7yvrKUQnGgdp8B3NQYFmeSY4AG9kn321 5gYDtf918vXXIlR8BZolIn+c0jp1L1w= Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 23:36:00 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Alexander Lobakin Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Jesse Brandeburg , Kristen Carlson Accardi , Kees Cook , Miklos Szeredi , Ard Biesheuvel , Tony Luck , Bruce Schlobohm , Jessica Yu , kernel test robot , Miroslav Benes , Evgenii Shatokhin , Jonathan Corbet , Masahiro Yamada , Michal Marek , Nick Desaulniers , Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Will Deacon , Ingo Molnar , Dave Hansen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Arnd Bergmann , Josh Poimboeuf , Nathan Chancellor , Masami Hiramatsu , Marios Pomonis , Sami Tolvanen , "H.J. Lu" , Nicolas Pitre , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 03/15] kallsyms: Hide layout Message-ID: References: <20211223002209.1092165-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> <20211223002209.1092165-4-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20211223002209.1092165-4-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 01:21:57AM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote: > Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 03/15] kallsyms: Hide layout That title is kinda laconic... > From: Kristen Carlson Accardi > > This patch makes /proc/kallsyms display in a random order, rather Avoid having "This patch" or "This commit" in the commit message. It is tautologically useless. Also, do $ git grep 'This patch' Documentation/process for more details. > than sorted by address in order to hide the newly randomized address > layout. Sorted by address? My /proc/kallsyms says $ awk '{ print $1 }' /proc/kallsyms | uniq -c 119086 0000000000000000 so all the addresses are 0. Aha, and when I list them as root, only then I see non-null addresses. So why do we that patch at all? > alobakin: > Don't depend FG-KASLR and always do that for unpriviledged accesses Unknown word [unpriviledged] in commit message, suggestions: ['unprivileged', 'underprivileged', 'privileged'] > as suggested by several folks. > Also, introduce and use a shuffle_array() macro which shuffles an > array using Fisher-Yates. Fisher-Yates what? /me goes and looks at the wikipedia article. Aha, a Fisher-Yates shuffle algoithm. Don't be afraid to explain more in your commit messages and make them more reader-friendly. > We'll make use of it several more times > later on. Not important for this commit. ... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette