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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:39:46 +0100
From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To: kaiwan.billimoria@...il.com
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] scripts: add leaking_addresses.pl
On Mon 2017-11-13 11:16:28, kaiwan.billimoria@...il.com wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 09:21 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 07:26:34PM +0530, kaiwan.billimoria@...il.com
> > > - it currently hard-codes a global 'PAGE_OFFSET_32BIT=0xc0000000'
> > > , just
> > > so I can test quickly; must figure whether to query it or pass it;
> > > Suggestions?
> >
> > Perhaps we should have a command line option for this.
> >
> > --kernel-base-address
>
> Why not just detect it programatically? We could devise a series of
> fallbacks; something like:
> - if .config exists in the kernel source tree root, grep it for
> PAGE_OFFSET
> - if not, grep the arch-specific (arch/<arch>/configs/<config-file>)
> for the same
> - if for some reason we don't have enough info regarding specific
> platform and thus the defconfig filename (could happen for ARM, PPC?),
> we then fail and request the user to pass it as a parameter.
You might also check /proc/config.gz.
Best Regards,
Petr
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