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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Checkpoint/Restore: Show in proc IDs of objects that can be shared between tasks
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:18:46 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111119081846.GA3419@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111119081012.GC2675@albatros>

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:10 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Also, if one should have an ability to learn IDs of specific object
> types and the set of types is very limited, it's much safer to have one
> increasing u64 counter for each created object of one of these types.
> The exposed to userspace data will be:
> 
>     ID = hash(counter ^ cookie)

Even hash(counter) without any cookie and counter is randomly generated at boot time.


-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Checkpoint/Restore: Show in proc IDs of objects that can be shared between tasks
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:18:46 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111119081846.GA3419@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111119081012.GC2675@albatros>

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:10 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Also, if one should have an ability to learn IDs of specific object
> types and the set of types is very limited, it's much safer to have one
> increasing u64 counter for each created object of one of these types.
> The exposed to userspace data will be:
> 
>     ID = hash(counter ^ cookie)

Even hash(counter) without any cookie and counter is randomly generated at boot time.


-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-19  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17  9:55 [PATCH v2 0/4] Checkpoint/Restore: Show in proc IDs of objects that can be shared between tasks Pavel Emelyanov
2011-11-17  9:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] Routine for generating a safe ID for kernel pointer Pavel Emelyanov
2011-11-17  9:56 ` [PATCH 2/4] proc: Show namespaces IDs in /proc/pid/ns/* files Pavel Emelyanov
2011-11-17  9:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] proc: Show open file ID in /proc/pid/fdinfo/* Pavel Emelyanov
2011-11-17 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Checkpoint/Restore: Show in proc IDs of objects that can be shared between tasks Andrew Morton
2011-11-18  9:24   ` Pavel Emelyanov
2011-11-18 19:07     ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-18 20:03       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-11-18 20:37         ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-18 21:03           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-11-18 21:09             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-18 22:10               ` Kyle Moffett
2011-11-18 23:46                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-11-19  1:09                   ` Kyle Moffett
2011-11-19  5:30                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-11-18 23:38             ` Matt Helsley
2011-11-19  5:35               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-11-19  7:57       ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-19  7:57         ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-19  8:10         ` [kernel-hardening] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-19  8:10           ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-19  8:18           ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]
2011-11-19  8:18             ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-11-19 15:34           ` [kernel-hardening] " Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-11-19 15:34             ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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