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From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] Arm64: ASLR: fix text randomization
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:44:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141009144441.GA18384@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141008112154.GF26140@arm.com>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:21:55PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 07:51:54AM +0100, Arun Chandran wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > > I wasn't able to spot where the randomness came from in the
> > > ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE case, so it's not clear to me if the
> > > generic implementation behaves identically other than disabling
> > > randomization when told to via proc.
> > 
> > I also don't know from where it is coming; but it works on arm and x86 :)
> 
> The randomness will come from elf_map, since that will descend into the mmap
> code and end up with a randomised base address (see mmap_base and
> arch_pick_mmap_layout).

Given that, it sounds like the existing randomize_et_dyn is redundant?

If so, the patch looks sane to me.

Mark.

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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Arm64: ASLR: fix text randomization
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:44:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141009144441.GA18384@leverpostej> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141008112154.GF26140@arm.com>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:21:55PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 07:51:54AM +0100, Arun Chandran wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > > I wasn't able to spot where the randomness came from in the
> > > ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE case, so it's not clear to me if the
> > > generic implementation behaves identically other than disabling
> > > randomization when told to via proc.
> > 
> > I also don't know from where it is coming; but it works on arm and x86 :)
> 
> The randomness will come from elf_map, since that will descend into the mmap
> code and end up with a randomised base address (see mmap_base and
> arch_pick_mmap_layout).

Given that, it sounds like the existing randomize_et_dyn is redundant?

If so, the patch looks sane to me.

Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-09 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-07 12:40 [PATCH v1] Arm64: ASLR: fix text randomization Arun Chandran
2014-10-07 12:40 ` Arun Chandran
2014-10-07 13:43 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-07 13:43   ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-08  6:51   ` Arun Chandran
2014-10-08  6:51     ` Arun Chandran
2014-10-08 11:21     ` Will Deacon
2014-10-08 11:21       ` Will Deacon
2014-10-09 14:44       ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2014-10-09 14:44         ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-10 11:31         ` [PATCH v2] Arm64: ASLR: Don't randomise text when randomise_va_space == 0 Arun Chandran
2014-10-10 11:31           ` Arun Chandran

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