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Message-ID: <20171207043203.GC3275@eros>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:32:03 +1100
From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
To: kaiwan.billimoria@...il.com
Cc: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@...il.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] leaking_addresses: add support for x86 32-bit kernel
addresses
On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 08:47:36AM +0530, kaiwan.billimoria@...il.com wrote:
> Currently, leaking_addresses.pl only supports scanning 64 bit
> architectures. This is due to how the regular expressions are formed. We
> can do better than this. 32 architectures can be supported if we take
> into consideration the kernel virtual address split (via the PAGE_OFFSET
> kernel configurable).
>
> Add support for ix86 32 bit architectures.
> - Add command line option for page offset.
> - Add command line option for kernel configuration file.
> - Parse kernel config file for page offset (CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET).
> - Use page offset when checking for kernel virtual addresses.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan.billimoria@...il.com>
> ---
>
> Ok, this patch is the same as the previous v3, with suggestions from Tobin incorporated:
> - newline in sub is_false_positive_ix86_32
> - refactoring of code to remove the temp file in sub get_page_offset
> - git short desc delibrately modified to make it more appropriate.
Cool, this is all good. I'm not going to apply it because of our
previous discussion on doing a general 32 bit implementation. I've just
finished doing some work to lay the ground for that. Posting the patch
set now.
thanks,
Tobin.
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