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Message-ID: <4665E7CA.8030907@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:46:34 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
CC: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
drepper@...hat.com, roland@...hat.com, arjan@...radead.org,
mingo@...e.hu, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, chrisw@...hat.com,
sds@...ho.nsa.gov, sgrubb@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
Eric Paris wrote:
>
> While I understand, there are a few users who will have problems with
> this default are we really better to not provide this defense in depth
> for the majority of users and let those with problems turn it off rather
> than provide no defense by default? I could even provide a different
> default for SELinux and non-SELinux if anyone saw value in that? But if
> others think that off default is best I'll send another patch shortly
> with the unsigned long fix and the default set to 0. My hope is then
> that distros will figure out to turn this on.
>
I hope not. This breaks any hardware virtualizer.
So yes, we're better off not having this on, and require it to be
explicitly enabled by the end user.
Sorry.
-hpa
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