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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:20:51 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Michael Leibowitz <michael.leibowitz@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Introduce struct layout
randomization plugin
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2017 11:50 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
>>> I gave this a quick spin on my aarch64 Rawhide machine. I needed to
>>> change the following to work with gcc7
>>>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/randomize_layout_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/randomize_layout_plugin.c
>>> index a2d7e933c33f..8dd5134f161a 100644
>>> --- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/randomize_layout_plugin.c
>>> +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/randomize_layout_plugin.c
>>> @@ -529,8 +529,8 @@ static void randomize_layout_finish_decl(void *event_data, void *data)
>>>
>>> DECL_SIZE(decl) = 0;
>>> DECL_SIZE_UNIT(decl) = 0;
>>> - DECL_ALIGN(decl) = 0;
>>> - DECL_MODE (decl) = VOIDmode;
>>> + SET_DECL_ALIGN(decl, 0);
>>> + SET_DECL_MODE(decl, VOIDmode);
>>> SET_DECL_RTL(decl, 0);
>>> update_decl_size(decl);
>>> layout_decl(decl, 0);
>>
>> Very cool, thanks! I'll adjust the common header file to provide these
>> macros for gcc pre-7 builds and update the series.
>>
>>> It boots but dies with a bunch of kernel faults somewhere after reaching
>>> userspace. I'll pick up the debugging next week.
>>
>> I've been thinking about splitting up the structure marking patch into
>> per-structure markings to make failure bisection easier. I assume
>> there's a specific structure that is misbehaving on aarch64 (my first
>> guess is always task_struct).
>>
>> -Kees
>>
>
> I think this was a build error on my side. I thought I tested with your
> -next branch but it was apparently based on -rc2. Several builds with
> your -next branch work fine. I'll test again with your v2 and see
> what happens.
This branch isn't quite ready, it was me trying to find the right
"first step" for getting things in, and only had some manually
annotated structs:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/gcc-plugin/randstruct
This is where I've been staging fixes, but I need to update it to a
more recent -next tree:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kspp/gcc-plugin/randstruct-next-20170404
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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