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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit mitigations
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:01:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F853E1.2080808@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jLQxE14Gy3x20XMyFyUQKwMQ+RU9S24H742cQevEF9Aew@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/30/2013 04:33 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> If you're running it as a regular user and you can brick the board,
>> you might have bigger problems.
> 
> Exactly, and finding those problems tends to be worth the hardware hassle. :)
> 

Even as root the number of things allowed to brick the hardware is quite
small.  Call it destructive testing.

	-hpa

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit mitigations
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:01:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F853E1.2080808@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jLQxE14Gy3x20XMyFyUQKwMQ+RU9S24H742cQevEF9Aew@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/30/2013 04:33 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> If you're running it as a regular user and you can brick the board,
>> you might have bigger problems.
> 
> Exactly, and finding those problems tends to be worth the hardware hassle. :)
> 

Even as root the number of things allowed to brick the hardware is quite
small.  Call it destructive testing.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-30 19:05 [ARM ATTEND] catching up on exploit mitigations Kees Cook
2013-07-30 19:05 ` Kees Cook
2013-07-30 22:14 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Dave Jones
2013-07-30 22:14   ` Dave Jones
2013-07-30 22:28   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-30 22:28     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-31 13:55     ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-31 13:55       ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-30 23:11   ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-07-30 23:11     ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-07-30 23:15     ` Dave Jones
2013-07-30 23:15       ` Dave Jones
2013-07-30 23:33       ` Kees Cook
2013-07-30 23:33         ` Kees Cook
2013-07-31  0:01         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-07-31  0:01           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-30 23:58       ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-07-30 23:58         ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-07-31  0:04         ` Dave Jones
2013-07-31  0:04           ` Dave Jones
2013-07-31  9:40           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-07-31  9:40             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-07-31 14:24             ` Dave Jones
2013-07-31 14:24               ` Dave Jones
2013-08-01  2:47               ` Olof Johansson
2013-08-01  2:47                 ` Olof Johansson
2013-08-01  2:59                 ` Dave Jones
2013-08-01  2:59                   ` Dave Jones
2013-08-01 16:02                   ` Vince Weaver
2013-08-01 16:02                     ` Vince Weaver
2013-08-21 15:26               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-08-21 15:26                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-08-21 15:43                 ` Dave Jones
2013-08-21 15:43                   ` Dave Jones
2013-08-21 15:56                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-08-21 15:56                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-08-01  9:13 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-08-01  9:13   ` Dan Carpenter
2013-08-01 19:05   ` Dave Jones
2013-08-01 19:05     ` Dave Jones
2013-08-01 19:16     ` Dan Carpenter
2013-08-01 19:16       ` Dan Carpenter
2013-08-01 19:26       ` Julia Lawall
2013-08-01 19:26         ` Julia Lawall
2013-08-03  0:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-08-06 21:44   ` Kees Cook
2013-08-13  4:51 ` Laura Abbott
2013-08-13  4:51   ` Laura Abbott
2013-08-26 19:56   ` Mark Brown
2013-08-26 19:56     ` Mark Brown
2013-08-27  2:09     ` Laura Abbott
2013-08-27  2:09       ` Laura Abbott

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