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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:59:09 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...el.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>, Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>,
Julien Tinnes <jln@...gle.com>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: kaslr: relocate base offset at boot
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:46 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2013 02:41 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> You seem to be missing something here...
>>>
>>> There are *two* mappings in 64-bit mode. Physically, if you're going to
>>> randomize you might as well randomize over the entire range... except
>>> not too far down (on either 32 or 64 bit mode)... in particular, you
>>> don't want to drop below 16 MiB if you can avoid it.
>>>
>>> On 64 bits, there is no reason the virtual address has to be randomized
>>> the same way.
>>
>> Aren't we bound by the negative 2GB addressing due to -mcmodel=kernel?
>>
>
> Guys,
>
> Please read what I wrote.
>
> The 2 GB limit is for the *virtual* mapping.
>
> The *physical* mapping, where it lands in RAM, is completely
> independent, and if you're going to randomize the latter, there is no
> reason it has to match the former. Instead, randomize it freely.
Ah, gotcha. I don't see much benefit in doing this as it would make
the 32-bit and 64-bit logic pretty different without much real-world
gain, IMO.
> That is different from the i386 kernel which runs at its
> physical-mapping address.
>
> Incidentally, for performance reasons please avoid locating the kernel
> below CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS if possible.
You mean CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START? This is already done in aslr.S via
LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR which is calculated from the
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN-masked CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START.
> Also make sure your code works with more than 128 e820 entries.
There should be no problem here; we're using edi to count them.
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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