Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] x86,kaslr: Use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED for KASLR if available
From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Jul 17 2014 - 14:49:00 EST
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's considerably better than any of the alternatives on KVM.
>
> Rather than reinventing all of the cpu feature query code, this fixes
> native_cpuid to work in PIC objects.
>
> I haven't combined it with boot/cpuflags.c's cpuid implementation:
> including asm/processor.h from boot/cpuflags.c results in a flood of
> unrelated errors, and fixing it might be messy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This will be very nice to have under kvm!
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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