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Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation

From Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation
Date 2017-07-07 19:10 +0200
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Kees Cook wrote:

> If we also added a >0 offset, that would make things even less
> deterministic. Though I wonder if it would make the performance impact
> higher. The XOR patch right now is very light.

There would be barely any performance impact if you keep the offset within
a cacheline since most objects start on a cacheline boundary. The
processor has to fetch the cacheline anyways.

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[PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 02:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-07-06 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 17:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-07-06 18:00 +0200
        Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list  pointer obfuscation Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> - 2017-07-06 18:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2017-07-06 20:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-07-06 21:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-07-07 16:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-07-07 19:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-07-07 19:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-07-07 20:50 +0200

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