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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/27] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 08:59:21 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5jLGFd2UY89bPm_WQvcsX+RDMg0XoJvuXwfknJrGxpn4Ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190131192533.34130-1-thgarnie@chromium.org>

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 8:28 AM Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org> wrote:
> These patches make the changes necessary to build the kernel as Position
> Independent Executable (PIE) on x86_64. A PIE kernel can be relocated below
> the top 2G of the virtual address space. It allows to optionally extend the
> KASLR randomization range from 1G to 3G. The chosen range is the one currently
> available, future changes will allow the kernel module to have a wider
> randomization range.

This also lays the groundwork for doing compilation-unit-granularity
KASLR, as Kristen has been working on. With PIE working, the
relocations are more sane and boot-time reordering becomes possible
(or at least, it becomes the same logically as doing the work on
modules, etc).

-- 
Kees Cook

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-31 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-31 19:24 [PATCH v6 00/27] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization Thomas Garnier
2019-01-31 19:24 ` [PATCH v6 19/27] kvm: Adapt assembly for PIE support Thomas Garnier
2019-02-06 19:56   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-02-06 21:23     ` Thomas Garnier
2019-01-31 19:59 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2019-01-31 21:40 ` [PATCH v6 00/27] x86: PIE support and option to extend KASLR randomization Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2019-01-31 22:42   ` Thomas Garnier

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