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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:25:31 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to
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Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:57 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> But now he has to fly blind for the next 30 because the numbers will disp=
lay
> exactly the same, and he can't correct for somebody else allocating one s=
o he
> needs to only allocate 29...

You're still talking about "slabinfo", which is already restricted.


And meminfo can be still learned with the same race window (ala seq lock):

    prepare_stuff();
    fill_slabs(); // Here we know counters with KB granularity
    while (number_is_not_ok()) {
        prepare_stuff();
        fill_slabs();
    }
    do_exploit();


Thanks,

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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