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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:33:41 +0200
From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...wei.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] prmem: documentation

I forgot one sentence :-(

On 13/11/2018 20:31, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> On 13/11/2018 19:47, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
>> For general rare-writish stuff, I don't think we want IRQs running
>> with them mapped anywhere for write.  For AVC and IMA, I'm less sure.
> 
> Why would these be less sensitive?
> 
> But I see a big difference between my initial implementation and this one.
> 
> In my case, by using a shared mapping, visible to all cores, freezing
> the core that is performing the write would have exposed the writable
> mapping to a potential attack run from another core.
> 
> If the mapping is private to the core performing the write, even if it
> is frozen, it's much harder to figure out what it had mapped and where,
> from another core.
> 
> To access that mapping, the attack should be performed from the ISR, I
> think.

Unless the secondary mapping is also available to other cores, through
the shared mm_struct ?

--
igor

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