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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:59:06 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] Sysctl: SROP Mitigation: Add Sysctl argument to
 disable SROP.
To: Scott Bauer <sbauer@eng.utah.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, x86@kernel.org, luto@amacapital.net, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, wmealing@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Abhiram Balasubramanian <abhiram@cs.utah.edu>, Scott Bauer <sbauer@plzdonthack.me>
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 01:53:26PM -0600, Scott Bauer wrote:
> This patch adds a sysctl argument to disable SROP protection.

Sysctl needs to be documented in Documentation/sysctl/

Also negated sysctl is weird, normally they are positive (enable-xxx)

-Andi