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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:27:45 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	spender@...ecurity.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] futex: mark get_robust_list as deprecated

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:19:24PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> >>
> >> CRIU folks, how do you deal with futex robust lists?
> >
> > Well, I believe we were over-optimistic in claiming that we don't need this
> > syscall (to be fair I think we simply yet not faced the problem Eric points).
> > So we need some way to fetch this address and set it back. If get_robust_list
> > get deprecated maybe we could print it out in /proc/pid/stat or something?
> 
> Kees, you said get_robust_list() can be used to bypass ASLR.
> How? What makes it worse than /proc/pid/maps?
> 
> If the robust list address itself is bad, removing get_robust_list()
> and putting the information into /proc is useless.

Look, the /proc entry might check for some CAP and do not allow
a regular user to fetch this address.

	Cyrill

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