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Message-ID: <20170518141323.GD23654@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:13:23 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@...el.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Chris Fries <cfries@...gle.com>, Dave Weinstein <olorin@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/06] printk: add more new kernel pointer filter options.
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:36:37PM +0000, Roberts, William C wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sergey Senozhatsky [mailto:sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 6:38 PM
> > To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com; Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>;
> > Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>; linux-
> > kernel@...r.kernel.org; Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>; Will
> > Deacon <will.deacon@....com>; Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>;
> > Roberts, William C <william.c.roberts@...el.com>; Chris Fries
> > <cfries@...gle.com>; Dave Weinstein <olorin@...gle.com>
> > Subject: Re: [RFC 00/06] printk: add more new kernel pointer filter options.
> >
> > Hello Greg,
> >
> > On (05/05/17 21:06), Greg KH wrote:
> > > Here's a short patch series from Chris Fries and Dave Weinstein that
> > > implement some new restrictions when printing out kernel pointers, as
> > > well as the ability to whitelist kernel pointers where needed.
> > >
> > > These patches are based on work from William Roberts, and also is
> > > inspired by grsecurity's %pP to specifically whitelist a kernel
> > > pointer, where it is always needed, like the last patch in the series
> > > shows, in the UIO drivers (UIO requires that you know the address,
> > > it's a hardware address, nothing wrong with seeing that...)
> > >
> > > I haven't done much to this patch series, only forward porting it from
> > > an older kernel release (4.4) and a few minor tweaks. It applies
> > > cleanly on top of 4.11 as well as Linus's current development tree
> > > (10502 patches into the 4.12-rc1 merge window). I'm posting it now
> > > for comments if anyone sees anything wrong with this approach
> >
> > overall, I don't see anything wrong.
> >
> > > or thinks the things that are being whitelisted should not be?
> >
> > can't say for sure, sorry.
> >
> > -ss
>
> I almost missed this, none of the mail was delivered to my inbox...
Why not? Did I get the address wrong?
> Anyways, I am glad to see this revived and I don't have any
> Comments besides thanks.
Acks for the patches are always appreciated :)
I'll revise this in the next few weeks and send out a new series.
thanks,
greg k-h
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