linux-kernel - Re: System call interposition/unprotecting the table

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Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:19:00 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Hajime Inoue <hinoue@...l.carleton.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: System call interposition/unprotecting the table

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:48:35AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

 > > > In general the .data protection is only considered a debugging
 > > > feature. I don't know why Fedora enables it in their production
 > > > kernels.
 > > 
 > > That would be because we think you are wrong 8)
 > 
 > Well, it might at best buy you a few weeks/months in
 > terms of the exploit arms race, but thrash your user's TLBs
 > forever.

Show me a single situation where this matters.
When we first enabled, we tried both benchmarks and real-world
loads, and it didn't matter at all.  Unless something fundamental
has changed since then, the story should still be the same.

	Dave

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