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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:06:26 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kaslr: allow kASLR to be default over Hibernation
Hi!
> > Now I notice that it is quite unclear if it actually changes
> > anything...
>
> Okay, right. So, there are a few problems that this patch is solving,
> and maybe it needs to be broken up into separate patches, but it
> didn't seem like it to me at the time. Specifically:
>
> 1) The x86 hibernation and KASLR code don't play well together currently.
>
> "1" was worked around so that both could be built in, but only one
> would be active at a time. This lead to:
> 2) The general hibernation code contains kernel arguments that should
> only affect x86.
>
> And we have the desire by folks to have KASLR enabled by default on
> x86, giving us:
>
> 3) There is no build-time way on x86 to switch the preference of KASLR
> vs hibernation.
>
> I think "2" should be solved for this release, since arm64 KASLR is
> landing, and mistakenly booting an arm64 system with "kaslr" on the
> command line will needlessly disable hibernation.
Yes, I have no problem with "2".
> 3 and 2 are a result of 1, and IIUC, you're saying you want to solve 1
> to make everything else go away? My only concern with that idea is
> that I don't (yet) have the knowledge of x86 hibernation internals to
> fix this, and it'll take a while to get to having KASLR on by default
> if we have to wait on me to fix hibernation. (I'm not saying I
> won't/can't, it's just that it'll take me time to come up to speed on
> it.)
>
> That do you think?
I believe it is more important to get it right than to have a solution
right now. x86-64 should be best architecture to start...
I don't understand kaslr, but it looks to me like you need to store
the kaslr seed in the hibernation image, then use thet in
set_up_temporary_mappings(). It should not be that bad.
Best regards,
Pavel
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