Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Function Granular KASLR

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 01:11:27PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> [...]
> > Systemtap needs to know base addresses of loaded text & data sections,
> > in order to perform relocation of probe point PCs and context data
> > addresses.  It uses /sys/module/...., kind of under protest, because
> > there seems to exist no MODULE_EXPORT'd API to get at that information
> > some other way.
> 
> Wouldn't /proc/kallsysms entries cover this? I must be missing
> something...

We have relocated based on sections, not some subset of function
symbols accessible that way, partly because DWARF line- and DIE- based
probes can map to addresses some way away from function symbols, into
function interiors, or cloned/moved bits of optimized code.  It would
take some work to prove that function-symbol based heuristic
arithmetic would have just as much reach.

- FChE