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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>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>,
	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>,
	Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>,
	Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>,
	Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
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.


  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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