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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
	lkp@intel.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] kallsyms: add option to include relative filepaths into kallsyms
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:11:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yv5IfiwqGumJwVGT@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220818135629.1113036-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 03:56:29PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:23:43 +0200
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 01:53:06PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > > Currently, kallsyms kernel code copes with symbols with the same
> > > name by indexing them according to their position in vmlinux and
> > > requiring to provide an index of the desired symbol. This is not
> > > really quite reliable and is fragile to any features performing
> > > symbol or section manipulations such as FG-KASLR.
> > 
> > Ah, here's the reasoning, stuff like this should go into the 0/X message
> > too, right?
> > 
> > Anyway, what is currently broken that requires this?  What will this
> > make easier in the future?  What in the future will depend on this?
> 
> 2) FG-KASLR will depend and probably some more crazy hardening
>    stuff. And/or perf-based function/symbol placement, which is
>    in the "discuss and dream sometimes" stage.

I have no idea what "FG-KASLR" is.  Why not submit these changes when
whatever that is is ready for submission?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-18 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-18 11:53 [RFC PATCH 0/3] kallsyms: add option to include relative filepaths into kallsyms Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-18 11:53 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] modpost: fix TO_NATIVE() with expressions and consts Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-18 12:26   ` Greg KH
2022-08-18 14:01     ` Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-18 14:10       ` Greg KH
2022-08-18 15:07         ` Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-18 11:53 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] [STUB] increase kallsyms length limit Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-18 12:23   ` Greg KH
2022-08-18 11:53 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] kallsyms: add option to include relative filepaths into kallsyms Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-18 12:23   ` Greg KH
2022-08-18 13:56     ` Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-18 14:11       ` Greg KH [this message]
2022-08-19 10:50         ` Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-19 11:02           ` Greg KH
2022-08-19 15:00             ` Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-19 15:19               ` Greg KH
2022-08-18 12:20 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] " Greg KH
2022-08-18 13:39   ` Alexander Lobakin
2022-08-22 14:40 ` Alexander Lobakin

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