Re: [RFC] perf: mmap2 not covering VM_CLONE regions

[Stephane Eranian]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:59:32PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> >>  - then there are timing attacks, and someone having access to a PMU
>> >>    context and who can trigger this SHA1 computation arbitrarily in task
>> >>    local context can run very accurate and low noise timing attacks...
>> >>
>> >>    I don't think the kernel's sha_transform() is hardened against timing
>> >>    attacks, it's performance optimized so it has variable execution time
>> >>    highly dependent on plaintext input - which leaks information about the
>> >>    plaintext.
>> >
>> > Typical user doesn't have enough priv to profile kernel space; once you
>> > do you also have enough priv to see kernel addresses outright (ie.
>> > kallsyms etc..).
>> >
>> I was going to say just that. But that's not the default, paranoid level
>> is at 1 by default and not 2. So I supposedly can still do:
>
> Oh right you are.. so yes that's a very viable avenue.

You mean simply encoding the vma->vm_mm as the ino number, for instance.
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