linux-kernel - Re: Designated initializers, struct randomization and addressing?

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Date:   Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:13:44 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@...il.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "John L. Hammond" <john.hammond@...el.com>,
        Emoly Liu <emoly.liu@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Fertman <vitaly_fertman@...atex.com>,
        Bruno Faccini <bruno.faccini@...el.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: Designated initializers, struct randomization and addressing?

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>> how is the code to be verified so that
>>> any use of things like offsetof and any
>>> address/indexing is not impacted?
>
> As a tangential party, I am a bit curious: does the randomization
> plugin result in a compact structure?  I ask because I know many/most
> programmers don't bother with it and so doing so ought to make the
> data more compact.

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/tree/scripts/gcc-plugins/randomize_layout_plugin.c?h=kspp/gcc-plugin/randstruct

See full_shuffle() and performance_shuffle(). The latter keeps
variables in the same cacheline. Neither attempt any kind of
compaction.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security