linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 0/5] KVM: X86: Introducing ROE Protection Kernel Hardening

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Date:   Thu, 1 Nov 2018 01:21:00 +0200
From:   Ahmed Soliman <ahmedsoliman0x666@...il.com>
To:     Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...il.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        nathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        김인겸 <ovich00@...il.com>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        nigel.edwards@....com, Boris Lukashev <blukashev@...pervictus.com>,
        Hossam Hassan <7ossam9063@...il.com>,
        Ahmed Lotfy <A7med.lotfey@...il.com>,
        Mohamed Azab <mazab@...edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 0/5] KVM: X86: Introducing ROE Protection Kernel Hardening

Hello Igor,
> This is very interesting, because it seems a very good match to the work
> I'm doing, for supporting the creation of more targets for protection:
>
> https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/10/23/3
>
> In my case the protection would extend also to write-rate type of data.
> There is an open problem of identifying legitimate write-rare
> operations, however it should be possible to provide at least a certain
> degree of confidence.

I have checked your patch set. In our work we were originally planning to do
something similar to write_rare just so we can differentiate between memory
chunks that may be modified and those that will be set once and never modify.
I see you are planning to do a white paper too, actually we are doing
an academic
paper based on our work. If you would like to collaborate, so that ROE
and write_rare
would integrate well from the beginning, we will be glad to do so.

Thanks,
--
Ahmed
Junior Researcher , IoT and Cyber Security lab, SmartCI , Alexandria
University, & CIS @  VMI