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From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: "keescook@chromium.org" <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] vmalloc: Add debugfs modfraginfo
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:58:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1537815554.19013.49.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJj+08J9UeyQs5ku8CziYWA72iJ+hxMR2Z2tLiVwvU8MA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 11:56 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Rick Edgecombe
> <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> wrote:
> > +done:
> > +       gap = (MODULES_END - last_end);
> > +       if (gap > largest_free)
> > +               largest_free = gap;
> > +       total_free += gap;
> > +
> > +       spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock);
> > +
> > +       seq_printf(m, "\tLargest free space:\t%lu kB\n", largest_free /
> > 1024);
> > +       seq_printf(m, "\t  Total free space:\t%lu kB\n", total_free / 1024);
> > +
> > +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) && kaslr_enabled())
> > +               seq_printf(m, "Allocations in backup area:\t%lu\n",
> > backup_cnt);
> I don't think the IS_ENABLED is needed here?
The reason for this is that for ARCH=um, CONFIG_X86_64 is defined but
kaslr_enabled is not. kaslr_enabled is declared above to protect against a
compiler error.

So IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) is protecting kaslr_enabled from causing a
linker error. It gets constant evaluated to 0 and the compiler optimizes out the
kaslr_enabled call. Thought it was better to guard with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
than with CONFIG_UM, to try to catch the broader situation. I guess I could move
it to a helper inside ifdefs instead. Was trying to keep the ifdef-ed code down.

> I wonder if there is a better way to arrange this code that uses fewer
> ifdefs, etc. Maybe a single CONFIG that capture whether or not
> fine-grained module randomization is built in, like:
> 
> config RANDOMIZE_FINE_MODULE
>     def_bool y if RANDOMIZE_BASE && X86_64
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_FINE_MODULE
> ...
> #endif
> 
> But that doesn't capture the DEBUG_FS and PROC_FS bits ... so ...
> maybe not worth it. I guess, either way:
Hmmm, didn't know about that. Would clean it up some at least.

I wish the debugfs info could be in module.c to help with this IFDEFs, but it
needs vmalloc internals. MODULES_VADDR is not standardized across the ARCH's as
well, so this was my best attempt to implement this without having to make
changes in other architectures.
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> -Kees
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-24 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-13 21:31 [PATCH v6 0/4] KASLR feature to randomize each loadable module Rick Edgecombe
2018-09-13 21:31 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] vmalloc: Add __vmalloc_node_try_addr function Rick Edgecombe
2018-09-21 18:46   ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 21:31 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/modules: Increase randomization for modules Rick Edgecombe
2018-09-21 19:05   ` Kees Cook
2018-09-24 18:57     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2018-09-24 19:58       ` Kees Cook
2018-09-24 21:27         ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2018-09-24 21:29           ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 21:31 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] vmalloc: Add debugfs modfraginfo Rick Edgecombe
2018-09-21 18:56   ` Kees Cook
2018-09-24 18:58     ` Edgecombe, Rick P [this message]
2018-09-24 20:03       ` Kees Cook
2018-09-13 21:31 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] Kselftest for module text allocation benchmarking Rick Edgecombe
2018-09-18  0:27   ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-21 19:05 ` [PATCH v6 0/4] KASLR feature to randomize each loadable module Kees Cook

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