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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>,
	Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:02:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202501221701.61D4E17@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250122171925.25472-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net>

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 05:19:21PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> on the exact CPU. While the benchmarks are somewhat synthetic, the overhead
> IO-intensive and network-intensive is easily detectable but the root cause
> may not be obvious (e.g. 2-14% overhead for netperf TCP_STREAM running
> over localhost with different ranges depending on the CPU).

I would be curious to see where this overhead is coming from. That seems
extraordinarily high, and makes me think there is something more we
should be fixing. :)

-- 
Kees Cook

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-23  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-22 17:19 [PATCH v2 0/4] Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time Mel Gorman
2025-01-22 17:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: security: Move hardened usercopy under 'Kernel hardening options' Mel Gorman
2025-01-22 17:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: security: Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time Mel Gorman
2025-01-23  0:57   ` Kees Cook
2025-01-23 11:37     ` Mel Gorman
2025-01-23 21:10     ` David Laight
2025-01-22 17:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: security: Check early if HARDENED_USERCOPY is enabled Mel Gorman
2025-01-23  1:01   ` Kees Cook
2025-01-23 11:47     ` Mel Gorman
2025-01-22 17:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] fortify: Move FORTIFY_SOURCE under 'Kernel hardening options' Mel Gorman
2025-01-22 21:42   ` Paul Moore
2025-01-23  1:02 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2025-01-23 11:49   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile time Mel Gorman

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