linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Checkpoint/Restore: Show in proc IDs of objects that can be shared between tasks

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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLFLxKGTzxjotAYv-d7Qzn5cqc1AGhXX0FSiK1i3to19Tg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:09:03 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Checkpoint/Restore: Show in proc IDs of objects
 that can be shared between tasks

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
>> Of course.  But
>>
>> a) I'm not sure that this scheme actually protects the kernel
>>    addresses - there may be way in which cunning userspace can work out
>>    the random mask.
>
> Well, in case of hw-rng it should not be that easy, still of course
> there is no 100% guarantee that there is absolutely no way to predict
> this mask (espec since it's generated once at lives here forever). But
> whatever makes attacker life harder -- is a good thing. After all we might
> simply take some hash on kernel address here (such as sha256) since it's
> not a time-critical operation and as far as I know collision is not found
> for it yet (??).

XOR cipher is very easy to crack with frequency analysis. I'd also
consider using SHA256 or similar hash for this.
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