From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/32: Stop printing the virtual memory layout
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 13:50:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200305205054.GD6506@cisco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200305150837.835083-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 10:08:37AM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> For security, don't display the kernel's virtual memory layout.
>
> Kees Cook points out:
> "These have been entirely removed on other architectures, so let's
> just do the same for ia32 and remove it unconditionally."
>
> 071929dbdd86 ("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> 1c31d4e96b8c ("ARM: 8820/1: mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> 31833332f798 ("m68k/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> fd8d0ca25631 ("parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout")
> adb1fe9ae2ee ("mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()")
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
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2020-03-05 15:08 ` [PATCH] powerpc/32: Stop printing the virtual memory layout Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 20:50 ` Tycho Andersen [this message]
2022-03-09 19:35 ` Christophe Leroy
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