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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>,
	Michael Davidson <md@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:03:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140121140311.GB4537@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DE7C49.90503@zytor.com>


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> On 01/21/2014 02:27 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Hm, live annotation of the kernel image is a relatively new perf 
> > feature, and KASLR predated that (by years) - which would at least in 
> > part explain why it went unnoticed. (Although it does not excuse the 
> > lack of testing.)
> 
> kASLR is new, but on 32 bits we have relocated the kernel for a long 
> time. [...]

I doubt many people develop on 32-bit x86, and the group of people 
looking at annotated 32-bit assembly kernel profiles ought to be 
another order of magnitude smaller than that ...

> [...]  kASLR is the first use case of relocating the 64-bit kernel, 
> though.

Yeah.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-21 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-20 16:47 [GIT PULL] x86/kaslr for v3.14 H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-20 22:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-20 23:00   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-20 23:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-20 23:13     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-21  9:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-21 14:20         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-21 14:39           ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-21 14:51             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-21 14:56               ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-21 18:37           ` Kees Cook
2014-01-21 10:27     ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-21 13:55       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-21 14:03         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2014-01-21 14:05           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-21 14:14             ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-21 14:17               ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-21  5:18   ` Kees Cook
2014-01-23  9:39   ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-26 10:16 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-27  5:33   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-27  6:49     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-27  6:51       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-27  7:38         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-27  7:43           ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-27  7:59           ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-30 22:07         ` Vivek Goyal
2014-01-31 16:57           ` Kees Cook
2014-02-07 14:49             ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-07 16:04               ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-07 16:24                 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-07 16:24                   ` Vivek Goyal
2014-02-07 23:16                   ` Dave Young
2014-02-07 23:16                     ` Dave Young
2014-02-07 23:20                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-07 23:20                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-07 23:28                       ` Dave Young
2014-02-07 23:28                         ` Dave Young
2014-02-07 19:07               ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-07 19:44                 ` Kees Cook
2014-02-07 19:44                   ` Kees Cook
2014-01-27  6:52       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-27  7:34         ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-27 17:05       ` Kees Cook
2014-01-27 17:20         ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-27 17:24           ` Kees Cook
2014-01-28  6:28             ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-28  8:25               ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-28 15:55                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-28 16:25                   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-28 16:30                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-28 16:51                       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-28 17:05                         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-28 17:12                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-28 17:24                             ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-28 17:35                               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-28 17:52                                 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-28 17:56                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-28 18:54                                     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-28 19:48                             ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-28 20:07                               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-28 20:15                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 20:25                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-28 20:28                                     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-28 20:38                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-29  8:25                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-29 10:40                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 20:49                                     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 23:37                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 21:08                                     ` Dave Jones
2014-01-29  6:36                                       ` Mike Galbraith
2014-01-29  8:11                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-29  8:27                                   ` Mathias Krause
2014-01-30  9:23                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-30 18:15                                       ` Linus Torvalds

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