Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2011 21:55:51 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Randomize kernel base address on boot |
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* Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> wrote:
> Just for the record, I've put this patch on hold until there's some > more consensus about whether boot-time randomization of the > physical kernel address is the best approach. [...]
Well, if you use the suggestion i made: to skip the e820 map fiddling altogether and just allocate half a megabyte of 'hole' at the end of the kernel image - which would allow the kernel to be randomized freely upwards by 0-128 pages - then the 'dynamic' versus 'static' solution could be used at once!
The 'static' method would use the same hole, just at install time, while the 'dynamic' method would use it during bootup.
Also, if this method is used then most of the controversy about the dynamic approach goes away (which was the memory maps interpretation fragility).
Your last patch would need only minor modifications to get the hole added: you'd need to add the tail-hole in the linker map:
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
So ... could you *please* not shelf this idea just because people used lkml for what it was invented: argued with each other rather forcefully? :-)
Thanks,
Ingo
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