linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] proc: randomize "struct pde

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:41:15 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] proc: randomize "struct pde_opener"

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:53:29PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> > The more the merrier.
> 
> What made you choose this structure, BTW?

Nothing depends on its layout. No funky memcpy/memset...
It is strange you didn't annotate like 95% of structs.

> > @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ struct pde_opener {
> >         struct list_head lh;
> >         bool closing;
> >         struct completion *c;
> > -};
> > +} __randomize_layout;