From: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hardening: Enable KFENCE in the hardening config
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:07:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ffbfd54-57d2-474e-8dad-7f1469f4da21@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240212130116.997627-1-elver@google.com>
Hi Marco,
On 12/02/2024 14:01, Marco Elver wrote:
> KFENCE is not a security mitigation mechanism (due to sampling), but has
> the performance characteristics of unintrusive hardening techniques.
> When used at scale, however, it improves overall security by allowing
> kernel developers to detect heap memory-safety bugs cheaply.
Thank you for having sent this patch!
Cheers,
Matt
--
Sponsored by the NGI0 Core fund.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-12 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-12 13:01 [PATCH] hardening: Enable KFENCE in the hardening config Marco Elver
2024-02-12 14:07 ` Matthieu Baerts [this message]
2024-02-12 19:04 ` Kees Cook
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