Re: CVS commit: src

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <27289.1543846003%splode.eterna.com.au@localhost>,
matthew green  <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>"Maxime Villard" writes:
>> Module Name:	src
>> Committed By:	maxv
>> Date:		Sun Dec  2 21:00:13 UTC 2018
>> 
>> Modified Files:
>> 	src/share/mk: bsd.sys.mk
>> 	src/sys/arch/amd64/conf: GENERIC
>> 	src/sys/arch/amd64/include: param.h
>> 	src/sys/conf: files ssp.mk
>> 	src/sys/kern: files.kern subr_pool.c sys_syscall.c
>> 	src/sys/sys: systm.h
>> 	src/sys/uvm: uvm_km.c
>> Added Files:
>> 	src/sys/arch/amd64/include: kleak.h
>> 	src/sys/kern: subr_kleak.c
>> 	src/usr.sbin/kleak: Makefile kleak.c
>> 
>> Log Message:
>> Introduce KLEAK, a new feature that can detect kernel information leaks.
>> 
>> It works by tainting memory sources with marker values, letting the data
>> travel through the kernel, and scanning the kernel<->user frontier for
>> these marker values. Combined with compiler instrumentation and rotation
>> of the markers, it is able to yield relevant results with little effort.
>> 
>> We taint the pools and the stack, and scan copyout/copyoutstr. KLEAK is
>> supported on amd64 only for now, but it is not complicated to add more
>> architectures (just a matter of having the address of .text, and a stack
>> unwinder).
>> 
>> A userland tool is provided, that allows to execute a command in rounds
>> and monitor the leaks generated all the while.
>> 
>> KLEAK already detected directly 12 kernel info leaks, and prompted changes
>> that in total fixed 25+ leaks.
>> 
>> Based on an idea developed jointly with Thomas Barabosch (of Fraunhofer
>> FKIE).
>
>extra thanks to Thomas and Max for this feature!
>
>this is great work.

Indeed, this is really nicely done!

christos