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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:13:55 +0300
From: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>,
Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>,
Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, "Dmitry V . Levin"
<ldv@...linux.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v7 0/6] Introduce the STACKLEAK feature and a test for
it
On 20.01.2018 13:13, Alexander Popov wrote:
> On 19.01.2018 00:13, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:09 AM, Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
>>> So I don't think that (1) without (2) is actually a good feature. I would
>>> propose to refrain from separating the stack erasing and the lowest_stack tracking.
>>
>> How about an option to clear the _entire_ stack, then, when the plugin
>> isn't available? That gives us a range of options and provides an easy
>> way to compare the performance of the tracking. i.e. can compare off,
>> full, and smart.
>
> Yes, I should try it. I'll return with the results of the performance tests.
> We'll discuss them; if full stack erasing is not too slow, I'll introduce it in
> the 8'th version of the patch series.
I've made a brief performance test on x86_64 (similar to the test described in
the cover letter). I guess there might be workloads with higher performance penalty.
Hardware: Intel Core i7-4770, 16 GB RAM
Test: hackbench -s 4096 -l 2000 -g 15 -f 25 -P
Average time on v4.14.15: 9.194s
Average time on v4.14.15-stackleak-with-plugin: 9.490 (+3.22%)
Average time on v4.14.15-stackleak-full-erasing: 12.149 (+32.14%)
Honestly, I think, it is not worth having this full stack erasing as a separate
feature. Moreover, it brings some #ifdef conditionals to the erase_kstack()
code, which don't look nice.
May I ask for your opinion?
Best regards,
Alexander
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