From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@chromium.org>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, kristen@linux.intel.com,
keescook@chromium.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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x86@kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
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"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
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Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>,
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Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>,
Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] x86: PIE support to extend KASLR randomization
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 17:50:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190806155034.GP2349@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806154347.GD25897@zn.tnic>
On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:43:47PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:12:44PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> > These patches make some of the changes necessary to build the kernel as
> > Position Independent Executable (PIE) on x86_64. Another patchset will
> > add the PIE option and larger architecture changes.
>
> Yeah, about this: do we have a longer writeup about the actual benefits
> of all this and why we should take this all? After all, after looking
> at the first couple of asm patches, it is posing restrictions to how
> we deal with virtual addresses in asm (only RIP-relative addressing in
> 64-bit mode, MOVs with 64-bit immediates, etc, for example) and I'm
> willing to bet money that some future unrelated change will break PIE
> sooner or later.
Possibly objtool can help here; it should be possible to teach it about
these rules, and then it will yell when violated. That should avoid
regressions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-06 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-30 19:12 [PATCH v9 00/11] x86: PIE support to extend KASLR randomization Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 01/11] x86/crypto: Adapt assembly for PIE support Thomas Garnier
2019-08-05 16:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-05 16:54 ` Kees Cook
2019-08-05 17:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-05 17:53 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 02/11] x86: Add macro to get symbol address " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 03/11] x86: relocate_kernel - Adapt assembly " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 04/11] x86/entry/64: " Thomas Garnier
2019-08-05 17:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-05 17:50 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-08-06 5:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-06 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-06 12:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-06 13:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-08-06 15:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 05/11] x86: pm-trace - " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 06/11] x86/CPU: " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 07/11] x86/acpi: " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 08/11] x86/boot/64: " Thomas Garnier
2019-08-09 17:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-29 21:29 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 09/11] x86/power/64: " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 10/11] x86/paravirt: " Thomas Garnier
2019-07-31 12:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-12 12:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-29 21:30 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-07-30 19:12 ` [PATCH v9 11/11] x86/alternatives: " Thomas Garnier
2019-08-12 13:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-29 21:31 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-08-06 15:43 ` [PATCH v9 00/11] x86: PIE support to extend KASLR randomization Borislav Petkov
2019-08-06 15:50 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-08-29 19:55 ` Thomas Garnier
2019-09-06 23:22 ` Thomas Garnier
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