[kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 00/20] x86, boot: kaslr cleanup and 64bit kaslr support

[Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>]

On 04/13/16 at 11:02pm, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> * Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> FWIW, I've also had this tree up in my git branches, and the 0day
> >>> tester hasn't complained at all about it in the last two weeks. I'd
> >>> really like to see this in -next to fix the >4G (mainly kexec) issues
> >>> and get us to feature parity with the arm64 kASLR work (randomized
> >>> virtual address).
> 
> So, I've done this and suddenly realized I hadn't boot-tested i386. It
> doesn't work, unfortunately. (Which I find strange: I'd expect 0day to
> have noticed...)
> 
> Baoquan, have you tested this on 32-bit systems? I get a variety of
> failures. Either it boots okay, it reboots, or I get tons of pte
> errors like this:
> 
> [    0.000000] clearing pte for ram above max_low_pfn: pfn: 37dcc pmd:
> f9144f7c pmd phys: 39144f7c pte: f9a1b730 pte phys: 39a1b730
> 
> Can you confirm? I suspect relocation problems, but ran out of time
> today to debug it.

Sorry, I didn't test i386 either before. I will get a i386 machine and
check it now. I know it's very late in your side, you need rest. Will
report update if there's any progress.

> 
> I have the entire series with cleaned up changelogs and various other
> refactorings up here now:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kaslr/highmem
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Kees
> 
> -- 
> Kees Cook
> Chrome OS & Brillo Security