On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:42:53AM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > On 02/06/20 at 09:51am, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 04:32 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > > > In the past, making kallsyms entirely unreadable seemed to break > > > weird > > > stuff in userspace. How about having an alternative view that just > > > contains a alphanumeric sort of the symbol names (and they will > > > continue > > > to have zeroed addresses for unprivileged users)? > > > > > > Or perhaps we wait to hear about this causing a problem, and deal > > > with > > > it then? :) > > > > > > > Yeah - I don't know what people want here. Clearly, we can't leave > > kallsyms the way it is. Removing it entirely is a pretty fast way to > > figure out how people use it though :). > > Kexec-tools and makedumpfile are the users of /proc/kallsyms currently. > We use kallsyms to get page_offset_base and _stext. AIUI, those run as root so they'd be able to consume the uncensored output. -- Kees Cook _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
