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Message-ID: <f672417e-1323-4ef2-58a1-1158c482d569@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 16:18:23 +0100
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <me@...in.cc>, Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: Stop printing the virtual memory layout
On 3/5/20 4:10 PM, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> For security, don't display the kernel's virtual memory layout.
>
> Kees Cook points out:
> "These have been entirely removed on other architectures, so let's
> just do the same for ia32 and remove it unconditionally."
>
> 071929dbdd86 ("arm64: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> 1c31d4e96b8c ("ARM: 8820/1: mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> 31833332f798 ("m68k/mm: Stop printing the virtual memory layout")
> fd8d0ca25631 ("parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout")
> adb1fe9ae2ee ("mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()")
Aww, why wasn't this made configurable? I found these memory map printouts
very useful for development.
Adrian
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