From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de,
hpa@zytor.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Add basic sanity checks to the syscall execution patch
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:44:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080904054444.79e71974@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873akgw251.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:01:46 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
>
> > Add basic sanity checks to the syscall execution patch
>
> This just means that the root kits will switch to patch
> the first instruction of the entry points instead.
>
> So the protection will be zero to minimal, but the overhead will
> be there forever.
>
> Now that I said this I expect it to go in yesterday.
>
I'd have considered taking your email serious if you had left out the
uncalled and unneeded sarcasm line at the end.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 2:51 Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-04 12:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-04 12:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-04 13:06 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-04 12:44 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-09-05 9:43 ` pageexec
2008-09-05 10:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-05 10:49 ` pageexec
2008-09-05 10:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-05 11:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-05 12:00 ` pageexec
2008-09-05 15:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-05 16:23 ` pageexec
2008-09-05 16:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-05 17:26 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-05 19:42 ` pageexec
2008-09-05 20:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-05 19:37 ` pageexec
2008-09-06 15:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-07 0:17 ` pageexec
2008-09-05 12:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-05 20:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-09-06 15:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-06 16:34 ` Jeroen van Rijn
2008-09-07 12:53 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-05 16:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
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