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From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@huawei.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	jglisse@redhat.com, keescook@chromium.org, mhocko@kernel.org,
	labbott@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, willy@infradead.org
Cc: cl@linux.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Documentation for Pmalloc
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 18:41:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33d85206-abfb-86cf-d303-b7efba9cc325@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29176ee0-f253-ccd7-8201-3f061b5890b0@infradead.org>

On 04/02/18 23:37, Randy Dunlap wrote:

[...]

>> +reason, could neither be declared as constant, nor it could take advantage
> 
>                                                   nor could it

ok

[...]

>> +Ex: A policy that is loaded from userspace.
> 
> Either
>    Example:
> or
>    E.g.:
> (meaning For example)

ok

[...]

>> +Different kernel idrivers and threads can use different pools, for finer
> 
>                     drivers

:-( ok

[...]

>> +  in use anymore by the requestor, however it will not become avaiable for
> 
>                            requester; however,                   available

ok

[...]

>> +- pmalloc does not provide locking support wrt allocating vs protecting
> 
> Write out "wrt" -> with respect to.

ok

>> +  an individual pool, for performance reason. It is recommended to not
> 
>                                          reasons.                  not to

ok & ok

[...]

>> +  in the case of using directly vmalloc. The exact number depends on size
> 
>                  of using vmalloc directly.                          on the size

ok & ok

[...]

>> +6. write protect the pool
> 
>       write-protect

ok

[...]

>> +7. use in read-only mode the handlers obtained through the allocations
> 
>                                 handles ??

yes

---
thanks, igor

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-09 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-04 16:47 [RFC PATCH v14 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 22:34   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-05  3:45     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-09 14:28       ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-09 16:18     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-09 17:15       ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/6] genalloc: selftest Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 22:19   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-04 23:03     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-05  0:14       ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-09 14:30         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-10 22:59     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-07 20:25   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-11  2:01     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 4/6] Protectable Memory Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 22:06   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-11  1:04     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-07 10:03   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-07 22:21   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-04 17:00 ` [PATCH 5/6] Pmalloc: self-test Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 17:00   ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation for Pmalloc Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 21:37     ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-09 16:41       ` Igor Stoppa [this message]
2018-02-07 17:18   ` [PATCH 5/6] Pmalloc: self-test kbuild test robot
2018-02-11  1:28     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11  3:19 [RFC PATCH v15 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11  3:19 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation for Pmalloc Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11 21:17   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-12 11:28     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 16:52 [RFC PATCH v16 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 16:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation for Pmalloc Igor Stoppa
2018-03-27  1:55 [RFC PATCH v20 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-03-27  1:55 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation for Pmalloc Igor Stoppa
2018-03-27 15:37 [RFC PATCH v21 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-03-27 15:37 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation for Pmalloc Igor Stoppa

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