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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:04:18 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: status: PAX_REFCOUNT
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:37 AM, David Windsor <dave@...141.net> wrote:
> I'm currently in the process of splitting PAX_REFCOUNT.
>
> It looks to touch a massive number of files. Many of the modifications
> occur in drivers:
>
> dave@...ontium:~/src/linux-grsec-4.2$ grep -ril "atomic.*unchecked" | wc -l
> 402
> dave@...ontium:~/src/linux-grsec-4.2$ grep -ril "atomic.*unchecked" drivers/
> | wc -l
> 158
Interesting there are so many intentional overflows. I think the
hardest part for getting this series upstream will be sticking to our
principle of not needing a developer to "opt in" to the protection. I
still think this is a compelling reason to keep it as-is, but it
should be an interesting discussion. :)
> As it stands, I'm trying to come up with a good way to split the patches.
> I'm currently going with a scheme of creating separate patches per kernel
> subsystem, further separating by component type (filesystems, drivers,
> etc.). For instance, for patches touching fs/, I've created a patch for
> filesystem-independent changes, then separate patches for each individual
> filesystem's changes. Extrapolated over the entire kernel, I estimate this
> strategy will produce approximately between 50 and 75 patches.
That'll be a lot of patches. I wonder if we could break it up by
top-level maintainer? i.e. everything in drivers would go in one
patch, etc?
> I'm moving my way through the tree and will hopefully have an RFC submission
> soon.
Great! Are you working on this full-time? (If not, would potential CII
funding help at all?)
I'll send an lkdtm patch that'll twiddle the atomic type, so you have
something to validate it with.
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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