From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Eddie Kovsky" <ewk@edkovsky.org>
Cc: <jeyu@redhat.com>, <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
<keescook@chromium.org>, "KY Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
"Haiyang Zhang" <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
"Stephen Hemminger" <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] module: verify address is read-only
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:14:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170220091417.14b21484@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170218055844.1457-2-ewk@edkovsky.org>
On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:58:42 -0800
"Eddie Kovsky" <ewk@edkovsky.org> wrote:
> Implement a mechanism to check if a module's address is in
> the rodata or ro_after_init sections. It mimics the exsiting functions
> that test if an address is inside a module's text section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
I don't see the point of this for many of the hyper-v functions.
They are only called from a small number of places, and this can be validated
by code inspection. Adding this seems just seems to be code bloat to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-20 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-18 5:58 [PATCH v2 0/3] provide check for ro_after_init memory sections Eddie Kovsky
2017-02-18 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] module: verify address is read-only Eddie Kovsky
2017-02-20 17:14 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-02-21 20:32 ` Kees Cook
2017-02-21 20:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-02-26 17:42 ` Jessica Yu
2017-02-18 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] extable: " Eddie Kovsky
2017-02-18 6:33 ` kbuild test robot
2017-02-18 6:49 ` kbuild test robot
2017-02-18 5:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Make vmbus register arguments read-only Eddie Kovsky
2017-02-18 6:30 ` kbuild test robot
2017-02-18 8:55 ` kbuild test robot
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