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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 21:25:35 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v9 2/7] x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel
stack at the end of syscalls
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:43:19AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 03/05/2018 08:41 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On 03/03/2018 12:00 PM, Alexander Popov wrote:
> > > Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 2 +
> > > arch/Kconfig | 27 ++++++++++
> > > arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S | 11 ++++
> >
> > This is a *lot* of assembly. I wonder if you tried at all to get more
> > of this into C or whether you just inherited the assembly from the
> > original code?
> >
>
> This came up previously http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/10/23/5
> there were concerns about trusting C to do the right thing as well as
> speed.
And therefore the answer to this obvious question should've been part of
the Changelog :-)
Dave is last in a long line of people asking this same question.
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