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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 11:21:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5fb32353b1964299809fce0c7579a092@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dc586f4-38f0-7956-0ab6-bd7921491606@redhat.com>

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?

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-05 11:21 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 [this message]
2020-10-05 12:18               ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 12:25                 ` David Laight
2020-10-07  9:43                   ` Topi Miettinen
2020-11-01 11:41                 ` Topi Miettinen

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