From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'David Hildenbrand' <david@redhat.com>,
Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] mm: optionally disable brk()
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 12:25:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23ca06acdfb44b76892857f9e9871241@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6baf73e-35fd-fe12-bb5f-b9b4e334ae83@redhat.com>
From: David Hildenbrand
> Sent: 05 October 2020 13:19
>
> On 05.10.20 13:21, David Laight wrote:
> > From: David Hildenbrand
> >> Sent: 05 October 2020 10:55
> > ...
> >>> If hardening and compatibility are seen as tradeoffs, perhaps there
> >>> could be a top level config choice (CONFIG_HARDENING_TRADEOFF) for this.
> >>> It would have options
> >>> - "compatibility" (default) to gear questions for maximum compatibility,
> >>> deselecting any hardening options which reduce compatibility
> >>> - "hardening" to gear questions for maximum hardening, deselecting any
> >>> compatibility options which reduce hardening
> >>> - "none/manual": ask all questions like before
> >>
> >> I think the general direction is to avoid an exploding set of config
> >> options. So if there isn't a *real* demand, I guess gluing this to a
> >> single option ("CONFIG_SECURITY_HARDENING") might be good enough.
> >
> > Wouldn't that be better achieved by run-time clobbering
> > of the syscall vectors?
>
> You mean via something like a boot parameter? Possibly yes.
I was thinking of later.
Some kind of restricted system might want the 'clobber'
mount() after everything is running.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-05 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-02 17:19 [PATCH] mm: optionally disable brk() Topi Miettinen
2020-10-02 17:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-02 21:19 ` David Laight
2020-10-02 21:44 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-05 6:12 ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-05 8:11 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-05 8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-05 9:03 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-05 14:12 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-10-05 16:14 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-05 9:13 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 9:20 ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-05 9:47 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-05 9:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 11:21 ` David Laight
2020-10-05 12:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 12:25 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-10-07 9:43 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-11-01 11:41 ` Topi Miettinen
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