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Message-ID: <20180702095931.GB28665@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 10:59:32 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>, catalin.marinas@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Clear the stack
Hi Kees,
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 01:25:20PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On 06/29/2018 01:19 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Implementation of stackleak based heavily on the x86 version
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
> >>> [...]
> >>> +#define current_top_of_stack() (task_stack_page(current) + THREAD_SIZE)
> >>> +#define on_thread_stack() (on_task_stack(current,
> >>> current_stack_pointer))
> >>
> >>
> >> nit on types here. I get some warnings:
> >>
> >> kernel/stackleak.c:55:12: warning: assignment makes integer from
> >> pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
> >> boundary = current_top_of_stack();
> >> ^
> >> kernel/stackleak.c:65:24: warning: assignment makes integer from
> >> pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
> >> current->lowest_stack = current_top_of_stack() - THREAD_SIZE / 64;
> >> ^
> >>
> >> So I think this needs to be:
> >>
> >> +#define current_top_of_stack() ((unsigned long)task_stack_page(current) +
> >> \
> >> + THREAD_SIZE)
> >>
> >
> > Argh, missed that in an amend, can fix for next version if there
> > are no other objections to this approach.
>
> No worries! I've made the change locally and will push this out to
> -next unless there are objections?
I'm a bit wary of conflicts in entry.S, since it's likely that we're going
to have a lot going on in there for 4.19.
Could I take this via arm64 instead, please, or are there dependencies
on other parts of your tree?
Will
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