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Message-ID: <62c69fb5-03a8-4f30-cbc1-4955e9efbb18@iaik.tugraz.at>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:53:20 +0200
From: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@...k.tugraz.at>
To: David Gens <david.gens@...tu-darmstadt.de>,
Thomas Garnier
<thgarnie@...gle.com>
CC: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Hardening
<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
<clementine.maurice@...k.tugraz.at>, <moritz.lipp@...k.tugraz.at>,
Michael Schwarz
<michael.schwarz@...k.tugraz.at>,
Richard Fellner
<richard.fellner@...dent.tugraz.at>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov"
<kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, <anders.fogh@...ta-adan.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] x86_64: KAISER - do not map
kernel in user mode
On 06.05.2017 10:38, Daniel Gruss wrote:
> On 2017-05-06 06:02, David Gens wrote:
>> Assuming that their patch indeed leaks per-cpu addresses.. it might not
>> necessarily
>> be required to change it.
>
> I think we're not leaking them (unless we still have some bug in our code).
Just to correct my answer here as well: Although we experimented with fixed mappings for per-cpu addresses, the current
patch does not incorporate this yet, so it indeed still leaks. However, it is not a severe problem. The mapping of the
required (per-cpu) variables would be at a fixed location in the user CR3, instead of the ones that are used in the kernel.
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