Re: Security fix for remapping of page 0 (was [PATCH] Change ZERO_SIZE_PTR to point at unmapped space)

Eric Paris
2009-06-03T17:16:16Z

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> The other mistake is to think that SELinux is sane, or should be the
> default. It's a f*cking complex disaster, and makes performance plummet on
> some things.

While I think you couldn't be more wrong I'm not going to argue that topic....

I am at least interested in hearing about the 'performance plummet.'
I don't see any performance reports on my todo list but I am
interested in banging on any that people report. Last performance
thing I heard anything about was Ingo doing some profiling of of a
network stack benchmark in which SELinux was eating a percent or two
his time. I cut the SELinux performance penalty by about 50% on my
systems in that benchmark. If others have complaints let me or the
selinux list know....

-Eric