From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, luto@kernel.org, me@tobin.cc,
peterz@infradead.org, tycho@tycho.ws, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/init_32: Don't print out kernel memory layout if KASLR
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 10:38:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202003021038.8F0369D907@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200301001123.GA1278373@rani.riverdale.lan>
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 07:11:23PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:51:45PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Arvind Sankar said:
> > > For security, only show the virtual kernel memory layout if KASLR is
> > > disabled.
> >
> > 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()")
> >
> > -Kees
> >
> > --
> > Kees Cook
>
> microblaze (arch/microblaze/mm/init.c) and PPC32 (arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c)
> appear to still print it out. I can't test those, but will resubmit
> x86-32 with it removed.
Might as well fix those up too. :)
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-02 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-26 21:50 [PATCH] x86/mm/init_32: Don't print out kernel memory layout if KASLR Arvind Sankar
2020-02-29 23:51 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-01 0:11 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-02 18:38 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-03-05 15:05 ` [PATCH] microblaze: Stop printing the virtual memory layout Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 20:50 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-03-09 10:09 ` Michal Simek
2020-03-05 15:06 ` [PATCH] nds32/mm: " Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 20:50 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-03-05 15:08 ` [PATCH] powerpc/32: " Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 20:50 ` Tycho Andersen
2022-03-09 19:35 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-03-05 15:10 ` [PATCH] sh: " Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 15:18 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-03-05 15:38 ` Joe Perches
2020-03-05 15:41 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-03-05 15:46 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 15:49 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-03-05 15:56 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 20:51 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-03-05 20:56 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2020-03-05 21:17 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-05 17:34 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-06 8:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-03-08 12:17 ` Kaiwan N Billimoria
2020-03-05 15:11 ` [PATCH] xtensa/mm: " Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 20:51 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-03-06 7:54 ` Max Filippov
2020-03-01 0:22 ` [PATCH v2] x86/mm/init_32: " Arvind Sankar
2020-03-02 15:29 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-03-02 18:39 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-05 15:01 ` [PATCH v3] " Arvind Sankar
2020-03-05 17:28 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-05 20:49 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-03-05 23:00 ` [tip: x86/mm] x86/mm/init/32: " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
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