From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Alexander Gabert <pappy@gentoo.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, hardened@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:09:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070625070938.GN7012@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182746583.26621.5.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:43:03PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > - something to do with aux vector headers
>
> the primary goal is to pass a random value to userspace at process
> start; this to save glibc from having to open /dev/urandom on ever
> program start (which it does now for all apps compiled with
> -fstack-protector, which in various distros is "everything").
There are 2 ways to compile -fstack-protector supporting glibc actually,
only one opens /dev/urandom on every program initialization, the other
computes the stack guard from some bits of the stack address (so indirectly
depends on get_random_int() in stack randomization).
Nevertheless, having one random long (32-bit for 32-bit arches, 64-bit
otherwise) in aux vector would be useful.
Jakub
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-25 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-17 23:40 AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h Alexander Gabert
2007-06-18 1:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-18 1:28 ` Alexander Gabert
2007-06-18 1:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-18 10:36 ` Alexander Gabert
2007-06-20 15:34 ` [PATCH] get_random_long() and AT_ENTROPY for auxv, kernel 2.6.21.5 Alexander Gabert
2007-06-20 15:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-20 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-20 17:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-06-20 20:30 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-24 17:45 ` Alexander Gabert
2007-06-25 3:45 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-25 4:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-25 5:12 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-25 7:09 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2007-06-25 15:02 ` Alexander Gabert
2007-06-25 15:20 ` Matt Mackall
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