linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v8 08/14] livepatch: only match unique symbols when using FG-KASLR

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Message-ID: <YansAlTr0/MfNxWc@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Fri, 3 Dec 2021 11:05:54 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 08/14] livepatch: only match unique symbols when using
 FG-KASLR

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 11:32:08PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> If any type of function granular randomization is enabled, the sympos
> algorithm will fail, as it will be impossible to resolve symbols when
> there are duplicates using the previous symbol position.
> 
> We could override sympos to 0, but make it more clear to the user
> and bail out if the symbol is not unique.

Since we're going lots of horrendous things already, why can't we fix
this duplicate nonsense too?