Re: [PATCH v3 01/15] Documentation: add newcx initramfs format description

2018-02-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 02/16/18 12:33, Taras Kondratiuk wrote: > Many of the Linux security/integrity features are dependent on file > metadata, stored as extended attributes (xattrs), for making decisions. > These features need to be initialized during initcall and enabled as > early as possible for complete

Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] x86: Make the GDT remapping read-only on 64-bit

2017-03-14 Thread H. Peter Anvin
,"Luis R . Rodriguez" ,Stanislaw Gruszka ,Peter Zijlstra ,Josh Poimboeuf ,Vitaly Kuznetsov ,Tim Chen ,Joerg Roedel

Re: [PATCH 00/14] Present useful limits to user (v2)

2016-07-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
,Johannes Weiner ,Alexei Starovoitov ,Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo ,Alexander Shishkin ,Balbir Singh ,Markus Elfring ,"David S.

Re: [RFC v1 3/4] x86, boot: Implement ASLR for kernel memory sections (x86_64)

2016-04-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On April 21, 2016 8:52:01 AM PDT, Thomas Garnier <thgar...@google.com> wrote: >On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:46 AM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: >> On April 21, 2016 6:30:24 AM PDT, Boris Ostrovsky ><boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [RFC v1 3/4] x86, boot: Implement ASLR for kernel memory sections (x86_64)

2016-04-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On April 21, 2016 6:30:24 AM PDT, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > > >On 04/15/2016 06:03 PM, Thomas Garnier wrote: >> +void __init kernel_randomize_memory(void) >> +{ >> +size_t i; >> +unsigned long addr = memory_rand_start; >> +unsigned long padding, rand,

Re: [RFC v1 3/4] x86, boot: Implement ASLR for kernel memory sections (x86_64)

2016-04-18 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On April 18, 2016 7:46:05 AM PDT, Joerg Roedel wrote: >On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 03:03:12PM -0700, Thomas Garnier wrote: >> +#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN) >> +static const unsigned long memory_rand_end = KASAN_SHADOW_START; >> +#elfif defined(CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64) >> +static const