[Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] kernel hardening / self-protection / whatever

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Mon Jul 11 13:05:41 UTC 2016


On Sunday, July 10, 2016 09:28:53 PM Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Are there useful things to discuss in person about hardening?  (I
> don't want to bikeshed about the name at the kernel summit if we can
> possibly avoid it.)
> 
> Plausible sub-topics include:
> 
>  - "USERCOPY" hardening
> 
>  - Virtually mapped stacks (I'm hoping to have that in for x86 before
> kernel summit...)
> 
>  - Refcount
> 
> I don't how much of this really needs an in-person meeting, but maybe
> some if it would benefit.

I, for one, would like to know in advance if things are in planning that may
interfere with stuff like hibernation or it gets really ugly when breakage
has to be fixed after the fact.

Thanks,
Rafael



More information about the Ksummit-discuss mailing list