linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Memory Mapping (VMA) protection using PKU

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Message-ID: <d29492e3-b071-7b16-41ec-c499d6802257@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Jun 2023 09:16:03 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...omium.org>
Cc:     Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Röttger <sroettger@...gle.com>,
        luto@...nel.org, jorgelo@...omium.org, keescook@...omium.org,
        groeck@...omium.org, jannh@...gle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Memory Mapping (VMA) protection using PKU - set 1

On 5/31/23 18:39, Jeff Xu wrote:
> I think this solution should work.

By "work" I think you mean that if laser-focused on this one use case,
without a full implementation, it looks like it can work.

I'll give you a "maybe" on that.

But that leaves out the bigger picture.  How many other things will we
regress doing this?  What's the opportunity cost?  What other things
will get neglected because we did _this_ one?  Are there more users out
there?

Looking at the big picture, I'm not convinced those tradeoffs are good
ones (and you're not going to find anyone that's a bigger fan of pkeys
than me).