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Message-Id: <C39303A6-7E9F-47FE-9757-0E73F08C07A9@amacapital.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 07:14:11 -0600
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
"Perla, Enrico" <enrico.perla@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/entry/64: randomize kernel stack offset upon syscall
On Apr 5, 2019, at 4:14 AM, Reshetova, Elena <elena.reshetova@...el.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 4:41 AM Reshetova, Elena
>> <elena.reshetova@...el.com> wrote:
>>> What I still don't fully understand here (due to my little knowledge of
>>> compilers) and afraid of is that the asm code that alloca generates (see my version)
>>> and the alignment might differ on the different targets, etc.
>>
>> I guess it's possible, but for x86_64, since appears to be consistent.
>
> So, yes, I double checked this now with just printing all possible offsets I get for rsp
> from do_syscall_64, it is indeed 33 different offsets, so it is indeed more like 5 bits of entropy.
> We can increase it, if we want and people are ok with losing a bit more stack space.
>
>>
>>> If you tried it on yours, can you send me the asm code that it produced for you?
>>> Is it different from mine?
>>
>> You can compare compiler outputs here. Here's gcc vs clang for this code:
>> https://godbolt.org/z/WJSbN8
>> You can adjust compiler versions, etc.
>
> Oh, this is handy! Thank you for the link!
>
>
> So, should I resend to lkml (with some cosmetic fixes) or how to proceed with this?
> I will also update the randomness bit info.
>
>
Go ahead and send a new version, please.
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