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From: "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>,
	David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>,
	davem@davemloft.net, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:26:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58FF3273.5306.1C99E565@pageexec.freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170425102337.ocdi2v7ivue7x7cc@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 25 Apr 2017 at 12:23, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> So what avoids this:

simple, you noted it yourself in your previous mail:

> Well, your setup (panic_on_warn et al) would have it panic the box. That
> will effectively stop the exploit by virtue of stopping everything.

with that in mind the actual code looks like this:

>	CPU0				CPU1
>
>
>	lock inc %[val]; # 0x7fffffff
>	jo  2f
>1:	...
>
>					lock dec %[val]; # 0x80000000
>					jo  2f
>				1:	...
>
>
>
>
>2:	mov $0x7fffffff, %[val]

	panic()

>	jmp 1b
>
>				2:	mov $0x80000000, %[val]

					panic()

>					jmp 1b
>

... and we never get this far.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-25 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-21 22:09 Kees Cook
2017-04-24  8:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-24  8:53   ` [kernel-hardening] " Jann Horn
2017-04-24  9:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-24 11:00   ` PaX Team
2017-04-24 11:15     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-24 13:08       ` PaX Team
2017-04-24 13:33         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-24 15:15           ` PaX Team
2017-04-24 20:40             ` Kees Cook
2017-04-24 22:01               ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-24 22:37                 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-25  1:11                   ` [kernel-hardening] " Rik van Riel
2017-04-25  9:05                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-25 11:26                 ` PaX Team
2017-04-25 16:36                   ` Kees Cook
2017-04-24 20:33     ` Kees Cook
2017-04-25 11:26       ` PaX Team
2017-04-25 16:39         ` Kees Cook
2017-04-26  2:14           ` PaX Team
2017-04-26  4:42             ` Kees Cook
2017-04-24 20:16   ` Kees Cook
2017-04-24 10:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-24 20:19   ` Kees Cook
2017-04-24 10:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-24 20:21   ` Kees Cook
2017-04-25 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-25 11:26   ` PaX Team [this message]

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