Re: fast/syscall-free gettimeofday ?

2011-06-15 Thread Scott Long
If this was to be extended with cached global syscall information like gettimeofday, would we want that to be in a separate page that is marked non-executable? Is there any way to trick the kernel into leaking arbitrary (and thus executable) code? Also, would it matter for jails? Per-process

Re: fast/syscall-free gettimeofday ?

2011-06-15 Thread Julian Elischer
If this was to be extended with cached global syscall information like gettimeofday, would we want that to be in a separate page that is marked non-executable? Is there any way to trick the kernel into leaking arbitrary (and thus executable) code? Also, would it matter for jails?

Re: fast/syscall-free gettimeofday ?

2011-06-15 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 15, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: If this was to be extended with cached global syscall information like gettimeofday, would we want that to be in a separate page that is marked non-executable? Is there any way to trick the kernel into leaking arbitrary (and thus

Re: fast/syscall-free gettimeofday ?

2011-06-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On Jun 15, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: If this was to be extended with cached global syscall information like gettimeofday, would we want that to be in a separate page that is marked non-executable? Is there any way to trick the kernel into leaking arbitrary (and thus

Re: fast/syscall-free gettimeofday ?

2011-06-14 Thread K. Macy
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:08 PM, K. Macy km...@freebsd.org wrote: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys/imgact.h kib added rudimentary support for this in January To clarify, this is just the kernel side of the shared page infrastructure, and is currently only hosting the the signal

Re: fast/syscall-free gettimeofday ?

2011-06-14 Thread K. Macy
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys/imgact.h kib added rudimentary support for this in January On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Luigi Rizzo ri...@iet.unipi.it wrote: there were discussions at some point on an imprecise but fast implementations of gettimeofday() that would not require