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Message-ID: <20151210002651.GC99337@davidb.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:26:51 -0800
From: David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Self Introduction
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 04:14:20PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>Great! It might be valuable to read through this mailing lists's
>threads over the last month. We discuss a few of the features and some
>work has been started.
Reading through stuff now. Looks like the list got quite a boost in
November.
>> I suspect part of the challenge is going to be clearly describing the
>> various features along with specific examples of already-discovered
>> exploits that the feature would have mitigated.
>
>Yes indeed. :) That's why I've arranged the wiki the way I did:
>classes and methods first, with potential solutions listed under them.
>We want to start with problem descriptions and work from actual
>exploits when possible.
>
>This is why the recent x86 VDSO attack was very timely: it
>demonstrates cleanly why we want __ro_after_init (née __read_only) in
>upstream. (As well as the constification plugin.)
Which also seems like this will be quite useful on ARM as well. Do
you know any efforts to do this?
>> Most recently, I backported ARM PAN support to the Linaro stable
>> kernels (3.18 and 4.1).
>
>Excellent! Yes, I did a port to Brillo's v4.1 tree as well. It's very
>nice to have a UDEREF-like feature on arm. It's too bad this doesn't
>exist for Intel yet, but I'm hoping they'll step up.
>
>For 3.18, is this the right place to be looking?
>https://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-linaro-lsk-v3.18
It will be once it gets through testing.
https://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git/shortlog/refs/heads/v3.18/topic/PAN
to peek before then. There's also
https://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git/shortlog/refs/heads/v4.1/topic/PAN
for the 4.1 tree.
Should I CC kernel-hardening when sending patches for the Linaro
stable kernels?
>I'd love to see CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN into the AOSP 3.18 android kernel too.
I'll put this on my list to investigate. Sadly, it looks like there
is a bit of a window of ARM CPUs where neither solution will work;
Basically the pre V8.1 64-bit.
In fact, I don't have any hardware yet that supports PAN. I've done
all of the testing in emulation.
David
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