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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, kernel: make dump_pagetables a tristate
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 06:58:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D18B16.1000402@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130630040514.GA20587@www.outflux.net>

On 6/29/2013 9:05 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> Being able to examine page tables is handy, so make this a module that
> can be loaded as needed.

I personally don't think this is a good idea due to the various
security/etc implications of this feature... should really just
be off for non-debug kernels, not "off unless you load the module"


> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_level4_pgt);
> +#else
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(swapper_pg_dir);
> +#endif

like these really have no business in any module





  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-01 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-30  4:05 [PATCH] x86, kernel: make dump_pagetables a tristate Kees Cook
2013-07-01 13:58 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2013-07-01 15:55   ` Kees Cook
2013-07-01 16:35     ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-07-01 16:56       ` Kees Cook

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