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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: + syscalls-x86-add-__nr_kcmp-syscall-v8.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:32:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F84C2FA.8090703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120410230833.GA17620@redhat.com>

On 04/10/2012 04:08 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> OK, since this is discussed again...
> 
> Can this comment can also explain why do we obfuscate the pointers
> by type? I mean, I don't really understand why the one-dimensional
> cookies[2] is "not enough" from security pov.
> 

Because it's cheap.  "Just enough" is not what you want to shoot for,
ever, you want to get past the "just enough" point and then consider
"what can I get for cheap at this point"?

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-15 14:36 + syscalls-x86-add-__nr_kcmp-syscall-v8.patch added to -mm tree Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-15 15:10 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 15:38   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-15 16:13     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 16:22       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-15 17:53         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 18:43           ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-15 19:56             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 19:57               ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2012-02-15 20:05                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 20:25                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 21:09                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 21:58                       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-16 14:49                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-16 15:13                           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-16 16:49                             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-16 17:40                               ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-16 17:58                                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-16 19:03                                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-16 19:20                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-16 19:29                                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-16 19:52                                       ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-16 20:01                                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-16 18:21                               ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2012-02-16 18:34                                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-16 18:33                                   ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2012-02-16 18:49                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-15 18:32   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 19:06     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-15 19:18       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-15 16:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-15 16:27   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-09 22:10     ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-09 22:24       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-09 23:22         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-10 22:37           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-10 22:39             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-10 22:48               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-10 23:08             ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-10 23:32               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-10 23:42                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-11  6:39                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-11 18:31                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-11  0:02           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-04-10  3:25       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-04-10 22:54         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-10 23:58       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-04-11  0:06         ` H. Peter Anvin

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