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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 17:48:58 +0100
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>, Dave Martin <dave.martin@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/29] implement KASLR for ARM
On 5 September 2017 at 17:45, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> [170903 05:08]:
>> This series implements randomization of the placement of the core ARM kernel
>> inside the lowmem region. It consists of the following parts:
>>
>> - changes that allow us to build vmlinux as a PIE executable which retains
>> the metadata required to fix up all absolute symbol references at runtime
>> - changes that eliminate absolute references from low-level code that may
>> execute with the MMU off: this removes the need to perform explicit cache
>> maintenance after the absolute references have been fixed up at runtime with
>> the caches enabled
>> - changes to the core kernel startup code to take the physical offset into
>> account when creating the virtual mapping (the pa-to-va mapping remains
>> unchanged)
>> - changes to the decompressor to collect some pseudo-entropy, and randomize
>> the physical offset of the decompressed kernel, taking placement of DTB,
>> initrd and reserved regions into account
>> - changes to the UEFI stub code to choose the KASLR offset and communicate
>> it to the decompressor
>>
>> To test these changes, boot a multi_v7_defconfig+CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y
>
> I gave a quick try using your arm-kaslr-v3 branch, hopefully that's
> the right one.
>
> The good news is that now omap3 boots with omap2plus_defconfig with
> and without CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y and I did not see any compiler
> errors with my gcc 6.2.0 like earlier :)
>
Good! Thanks a lot for taking the time to test this stuff.
> I did see boot attempts fail with randomize enable where no output
> was produced. It seems this is happening for me maybe 1 out of 5 boots.
> Enabling DEBUG_LL did not show anything either.
>
Yes. I am looking into a couple of kernelci boot reports that look
suspicious, but it is rather difficult to reproduce, for obvious
reasons :-)
Which hardware are you testing this on?
> Then loading modules with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y seems to fail with:
>
> $ sudo modprobe rtc-twl
> rtc_twl: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'rtc_twl': Exec format error
>
Is this with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS enabled?
Thanks,
Ard.
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