linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make /proc/slabinfo 0400

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Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:40:25 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make /proc/slabinfo 0400

On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> > Putting trivial obstacles in the way of attackers accomplishes little
> > beyond annoying users.
> >
> If we annoy users I agree we shouldn't. If we don't annoy users (and don't
> impact performance in any relevant way) then even trivial obstacles that
> stop just a few exploits are worth it IMHO.

Randomizing affects performance. The current way of initialization for the
list of free objects was chosen because the processor can do effective
prefetching when the allocator serves objects following each other.
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