linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v4] scripts: add leaking

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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DD00B3BD1@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:56:05 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     "'Tobin C. Harding'" <me@...in.cc>,
        "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
        <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
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        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4] scripts: add leaking_addresses.pl

From: Tobin C. Harding
> Sent: 07 November 2017 10:32
>
> Currently we are leaking addresses from the kernel to user space. This
> script is an attempt to find some of those leakages. Script parses
> `dmesg` output and /proc and /sys files for hex strings that look like
> kernel addresses.
...

Maybe the %p that end up in dmesg (via the kernel message buffer) should
be converted to text in a form that allows the code that reads them to
substitute alternate text for non-root users?

Then the actual addresses will be available to root (who can probably
get most by other means) but not to the casual observer.

	David