Re: [kernel-hardening] self introduction

[David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>]

Hi Colin,

If you're interested, the HARDENED_ATOMIC team is looking for people to help porting the feature to other architectures.  ARM is a reasonable candidate for someone new to the project.  I have begun this effort myself, but if you'd like to collaborate I'd be grateful.  

It essentially involves porting the original arch-specific features from PAX_REFCOUNT into Elena Reshetova's official HARDENED_ATOMIC tree, which can be found at https://github.com/esreshetova/linux-stable

Please contact me if you have any questions; I'd be glad to help!

Thanks,
David


> On Oct 9, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Colin Vidal <colin@cvidal.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> My name is Colin Vidal. I am currently a PhD student in computer
> science. My researches  consist on building a dedicated specific
> language on top of JavaScript in order to handle asynchronous events in
> a synchronous style. Hence, with a direct relation between the control
> flow and the instruction flow.
> 
> Beside my researches, I am taking up the Eudyptula Challenge (task 15
> submitted). It helps me to have a global view of the kernel
> (organization, tree, some features), but it is not enough to get
> involved in serious development. Therefore, I am looking for task I can
> accomplish to be involved into real kernel development!
> 
> I still don't have yet a narrow idea about where I can begin. I like
> though the idea of kernel self protection. For instance, I find the VM-
> mapped stack to be really interesting, but I think it is an overkill as
> a beginning, and a lot of work have already been done on it. On the
> architecture point-of-view, I have a preference of x86 since I only
> have this hardware for now, but I can work on ARM and others with QEMU
> too.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Colin