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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] stack and heap are executable on x86_64
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:36:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D49E0A.1080609@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQXcXn0xr_ACt4fS_=xWtXR8zGoYfpSzFKG4nEvKF=sGdQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/21/2012 09:28 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> which line?
> 
>  0xffffffff83000000-0xffffffff83c00000          12M     RW         PSE
> GLB  x  pmd
> 
> my kernel INIT_SIZE is 27M, and it includes everything that i needed
> in the kernel.
> 

We should NEVER have RW + x at the same time (at least when the kernel
is compiled properly.)  Looks like your patch does get rid of a bunch of
stuff in the low mapping -- although the low mapping really should never
be +x at all -- but there are still problems with the high mapping.

Oh yes, and then there is EFI.  If that means we need to keep a
completely separate page tables for EFI than so be it...

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-21 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21  3:00 [RFC] stack and heap are executable on x86_64 Kees Cook
2012-12-21  3:06 ` Kees Cook
2012-12-21  3:30   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-21  4:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-21  6:27   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-21 17:01     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-21 17:28       ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-21 17:36         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-12-21 21:26           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-21 22:22             ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-21 22:23               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-21 22:26                 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-12-21 22:28                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-21 22:30                     ` Yinghai Lu

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