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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 02:10:07 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] scripts: add leaking_addresses.pl
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:32:11PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Currently we are leaking addresses from the kernel to user space. This
> script is an attempt to find some of those leakages. Script parses
> `dmesg` output and /proc and /sys files for hex strings that look like
> kernel addresses.
>
> Only works for 64 bit kernels, the reason being that kernel addresses
> on 64 bit kernels have 'ffff' as the leading bit pattern making greping
> possible. On 32 kernels we don't have this luxury.
Well, it's not going to work as well as intented on x86 machine with
5-level paging. Kernel address space there starts at 0xff10000000000000.
It will still catch pointers to kernel/modules text, but the rest is
outside of 0xffff... space. See Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.
Not sure if we care. It won't work too for other 64-bit architectrues that
have more than 256TB of virtual address space.
Just wanted to point to the limitation.
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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