From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: khalid.aziz@oracle.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity (ADI)
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:58:10 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160307.155810.587016604208120674.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DDE783.8090009@oracle.com>
From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 13:41:39 -0700
> Shared data may not always be backed by a file. My understanding is
> one of the use cases is for in-memory databases. This shared space
> could also be used to hand off transactions in flight to other
> processes. These transactions in flight would not be backed by a
> file. Some of these use cases might not use shmfs even. Setting ADI
> bits at virtual address level catches all these cases since what backs
> the tagged virtual address can be anything - a mapped file, mmio
> space, just plain chunk of memory.
Frankly the most interesting use case to me is simply finding bugs
and memory scribbles, and for that we're want to be able to ADI
arbitrary memory returned from malloc() and friends.
I personally see ADI more as a debugging than a security feature,
but that's just my view.
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-02 20:39 [PATCH v2] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity (ADI) Khalid Aziz
2016-03-02 23:08 ` Julian Calaby
2016-03-03 0:25 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-03 0:48 ` Julian Calaby
2016-03-03 17:28 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-06 4:07 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 15:07 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 15:30 ` Rob Gardner
2016-03-07 15:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-07 16:06 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 17:46 ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-07 17:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-07 18:12 ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-07 18:39 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 18:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-07 19:22 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 19:46 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 22:40 ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-08 1:31 ` Rob Gardner
2016-03-07 21:06 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-08 19:57 ` David Miller
2016-03-08 20:16 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-08 20:27 ` David Miller
2016-03-08 20:59 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 15:45 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 16:45 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 17:51 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 16:56 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 18:04 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 18:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-07 18:22 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 18:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-07 19:19 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 19:44 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 19:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-07 20:41 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 20:58 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-03-07 21:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-07 21:09 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 23:34 ` James Morris
2016-03-07 23:48 ` James Morris
2016-03-08 9:33 ` James Morris
2016-03-07 18:09 ` Rob Gardner
2016-03-07 18:24 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 19:16 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 21:33 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 21:38 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 23:13 ` Rob Gardner
2016-03-08 4:13 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 23:12 ` Rob Gardner
2016-03-07 23:27 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-08 0:21 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-08 4:24 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 23:32 ` Rob Gardner
2016-03-07 19:09 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 21:27 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 21:34 ` David Miller
2016-03-07 22:30 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 17:32 ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-07 17:35 ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-07 18:15 ` Khalid Aziz
2016-03-07 19:06 ` David Miller
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