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Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([116.86.153.182]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 006d021491bc7-71429e7b7basm1517856eaf.1.2026.10.28.08.27.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:27:37 +0800 From: Chris Down To: Harry Yoo Cc: Vlastimil Babka , Andrew Morton , Hao Li , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Roman Gushchin , Kees Cook , Marco Elver , GONG Ruiqi , Jan Kiszka , Kieran Bingham , Jonathan Corbet , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm/slab: Support selecting slab hardening features at boot Message-ID: References: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.3.3 (9073d26d) (2026-06-12) Hi Harry, Harry Yoo writes: >If we end up supporting boot-time parameters for hardening, >I think it should be all enabled (or disabled) by: > > slab_hardening=none|light|full > # please feel free to suggest bertter names > >none: "Turn of all of them to maximize performance" > >light: "I'm willying to sacrifice _some_ memory and CPU for security" > >full: "I'm willying to sacrifice more overhead for security > >IMHO more fine-grained knob for each feature doesn't make much sense. I think if we did the 4 knobs that is a good idea. Given now it's two, I think it seems reasonable to keep it as two separate knobs unless you object? Otherwise I think given it will only cover the latter two, it should be something like kmalloc_isolation= instead. Let me know what you think. Thanks!