From: "Larry H." <research@subreption.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page allocator
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 05:55:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090528125537.GD29711@oblivion.subreption.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090528124840.GB1421@ucw.cz>
Hi Pavel,
> This should not be configurable. Runtime config, defaulting to
> 'sanitize' may make some sense, but... better just be secure.
We've since moved to an unconditional page sanitization approach,
enabled via boot option. Check out the latest patches in the thread,
don't bother checking the initial page flag ones since there's no
intention to follow that path for now.
Thanks for taking a look.
Larry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-28 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-20 18:30 Larry H.
2009-05-20 20:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-20 21:24 ` Larry H.
2009-05-21 15:21 ` Robin Holt
2009-05-21 18:43 ` Larry H.
2009-05-29 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-30 7:00 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 7:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 7:35 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 7:39 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-21 19:08 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-21 19:26 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-21 19:56 ` Larry H.
2009-05-21 20:47 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-21 21:46 ` Larry H.
2009-05-21 22:47 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-22 11:22 ` Larry H.
2009-05-22 13:37 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-26 19:02 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-21 19:17 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-21 19:30 ` Larry H.
2009-05-22 7:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-22 11:38 ` Larry H.
2009-05-22 13:39 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-22 18:03 ` Larry H.
2009-05-22 18:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-22 23:25 ` [PATCH] Support for kernel memory sanitization Larry H.
2009-05-22 23:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-05-22 23:40 ` [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page allocator Larry H.
2009-05-23 8:09 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-23 15:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-23 18:21 ` [PATCH] Support for unconditional page sanitization Larry H.
2009-05-23 21:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-24 10:19 ` pageexec
2009-05-24 16:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-28 19:36 ` [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page allocator Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-29 14:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-30 5:48 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 10:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-30 10:43 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 11:42 ` pageexec
2009-05-30 13:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-30 13:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-30 13:54 ` pageexec
2009-05-30 14:04 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 14:13 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-30 14:08 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-30 14:30 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-30 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-30 14:48 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-30 17:00 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 17:25 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 18:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-05 13:15 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-31 14:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-31 15:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-22 18:37 ` Nai Xia
2009-05-22 19:18 ` Nai Xia
2009-05-23 12:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-23 22:28 ` Larry H.
2009-05-23 22:42 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-25 1:17 ` [PATCH] Sanitize memory on kfree() and kmem_cache_free() Larry H.
2009-05-27 22:34 ` [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page allocator Ingo Molnar
2009-05-28 6:27 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-28 7:00 ` Larry H.
2009-05-28 9:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-28 11:50 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-28 19:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-30 7:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 7:50 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 7:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 8:20 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 8:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 15:05 ` Ray Lee
2009-05-30 17:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-30 18:03 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 18:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-30 18:45 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 19:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-30 20:39 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-30 20:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 21:33 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-30 23:18 ` Larry H.
2009-05-31 6:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-31 11:49 ` Larry H.
2009-05-31 7:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-31 11:58 ` Larry H.
2009-05-31 12:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-31 12:30 ` Larry H.
2009-05-31 12:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 23:10 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-31 6:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-31 10:24 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-31 10:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-31 12:16 ` Larry H.
2009-05-31 12:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-31 16:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-30 22:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-30 23:15 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-30 20:22 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 22:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-30 17:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-30 7:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 9:05 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-30 18:09 ` Larry H.
2009-05-30 8:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-30 8:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-30 9:27 ` Larry H.
2009-05-28 18:48 ` pageexec
2009-05-30 17:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-28 12:48 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-28 12:55 ` Larry H. [this message]
2009-05-28 18:56 pageexec
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