From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:08:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202501181226.58FDDB7@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250117130337.4716-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 01:03:34PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Some hardening options like HARDENED_USERCOPY can be set at boot time
> and have negligible cost when disabled. The default for options like
> init_on_alloc= can be set at compile time but hardened usercopy is
> enabled by default if built in. This incurs overhead when a kernel
> wishes to provide optional hardening but the user does not necessarily
> care.
Yeah! I like this. It's been somewhere on my TODO list for a while, so
thank you for doing it!
Nits/ideas in the patch replies...
--
Kees Cook
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-20 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-17 13:03 [PATCH 0/3] Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time Mel Gorman
2025-01-17 13:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: security: Move hardened usercopy under 'Kernel hardening options' Mel Gorman
2025-01-20 21:10 ` Kees Cook
2025-01-21 9:21 ` Mel Gorman
2025-01-20 21:42 ` Paul Moore
2025-01-17 13:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: security: Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time Mel Gorman
2025-01-20 21:21 ` Kees Cook
2025-01-21 12:35 ` Mel Gorman
2025-01-17 13:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] fortify: Move FORTIFY_SOURCE under 'Kernel hardening options' Mel Gorman
2025-01-20 21:25 ` Kees Cook
2025-01-20 21:08 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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