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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:42:53 +0800
From: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>,
dyoung@...hat.com
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com,
arjan@...ux.intel.com, rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com, x86@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/11] kallsyms: hide layout and expose seed
On 02/06/20 at 09:51am, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 04:32 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > In the past, making kallsyms entirely unreadable seemed to break
> > weird
> > stuff in userspace. How about having an alternative view that just
> > contains a alphanumeric sort of the symbol names (and they will
> > continue
> > to have zeroed addresses for unprivileged users)?
> >
> > Or perhaps we wait to hear about this causing a problem, and deal
> > with
> > it then? :)
> >
>
> Yeah - I don't know what people want here. Clearly, we can't leave
> kallsyms the way it is. Removing it entirely is a pretty fast way to
> figure out how people use it though :).
Kexec-tools and makedumpfile are the users of /proc/kallsyms currently.
We use kallsyms to get page_offset_base and _stext.
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