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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:11:21 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, x86@...nel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, arjan@...ux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] x86: Add support for function granular KASLR
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:23:25AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> This commit contains the changes required to re-layout the kernel text
> sections generated by -ffunction-sections shortly after decompression.
> Documentation of the feature is also added.
> [...]
> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
This looks good! I wonder about some way (in the future) to share the
sorting routines for kallsyms, exceptions, orc, etc. For now, though, I
think this is fine.
> [...]
> + if (cmdline_find_option("fgkaslr", arg, sizeof(arg)) == 3 &&
> + !strncmp(arg, "off", 3)) {
> + warn("FG_KASLR disabled on cmdline.");
> + nofgkaslr = 1;
> + }
I was recently reminded by Randy Lunlap to document my new boot params,
so I need to point out the same here. :) With a section added to
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
consider this:
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Kees Cook
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