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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] fork: make whole stack_canary random
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 23:11:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87funcqicc.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477951334.8761.15.camel@gmail.com> (Daniel Micay's message of "Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:02:14 -0400")

* Daniel Micay:

> On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 22:38 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Daniel Micay:
>> 
>> > -fstack-stack is supposed to handle a single guard by default, and
>> > that's all there is for thread stacks by default.
>> 
>> Okay, then I'll really have to look at the probing offsets again.
>> It's been on my to-do list since about 2012, and arguably, it *is* a
>> user-space thing.
>
> This is concerning too:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66479

Thanks.  This also shows the large stack pointer decrement:

	subq	$4144, %rsp
	orq	$0, (%rsp)

I really don't see how this can be safe with just a single guard page.

> It might be prevented for VLAs by using -fsanitize=vla-bound -fsanitize-
> trap=vla-bound but probably not alloca (or the older -fsanitize-
> undefined-trap-on-error for GCC,  since for some reason it doesn't seem
> to have the new way).

It's certainly reasonable to expect that this was covered by
-fstack-check.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-31 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-31 14:04 [PATCH] fork: make whole stack_canary random Jann Horn
2016-10-31 16:04 ` Kees Cook
2016-10-31 16:29   ` [kernel-hardening] " Jann Horn
2016-10-31 20:45     ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-31 20:55       ` Jann Horn
2016-10-31 20:56       ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 21:01         ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 21:10           ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-31 21:21             ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 21:38               ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-31 22:02                 ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 22:11                   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2016-10-31 21:22             ` Jann Horn
2016-10-31 21:26               ` Daniel Micay
2016-10-31 21:26               ` Florian Weimer

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