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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [RFC] x86: restrict pid namespaces to 32 or 64 bit syscalls
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:32:52 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110813163252.GA18458@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36fcaf94-2e99-47cb-a835-aefb79856429@email.android.com>

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:41 -0500, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> IA64 is totally different.

I didn't say all IA-32 compatibility layer of x86 is a crap, surely no.
But there is some code, which is poorly tested exactly because it is
compatibility code.  One relatively recent example:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3e645d6b485446c54c6745c5e2cf5c528fe4deec

>  I'm extremely sceptical to this patch;
> it feels like putting code in a super-hot path to paper over a problem that has to be fixed anyway.

I'll move the check to the tracesys branch, which is not a hot path, in
the next RFC version, so this should not be a problem.

Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-13 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-12 15:03 [RFC] x86: restrict pid namespaces to 32 or 64 bit syscalls Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-12 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-13  6:22   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-13 15:41     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-13 16:32       ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]
2011-08-14  9:09         ` Solar Designer
2011-08-18 14:40         ` [RFC v2] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-14  2:38       ` [RFC] " Andi Kleen
2011-08-14  5:08         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-14  9:20           ` Solar Designer
2011-08-14 14:48             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-14 15:27               ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-14 15:36                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-14 23:29                   ` James Morris
2011-08-15  0:18                   ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-15  0:32                     ` [kernel-hardening] " Will Drewry
2011-08-15  0:58                       ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-14 16:08                 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-08-15 18:51               ` Solar Designer
2011-08-15 18:59                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-15 20:14                   ` Solar Designer
2011-08-15 20:27                     ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-15 20:48                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-15 22:13                     ` Eric Paris
2011-08-16  1:18                       ` Andi Kleen

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