If you are using name-spaces to provide a level of context separation between your processes ... it's a problem.
On 5 January 2018 at 10:59, dpr...@deepplum.com <dpr...@deepplum.com> wrote: > Containers and kernel namespaces, and so forth are MEANINGLESS against the > Meltdown and Sceptre problems. It's a hardware bug that lets any userspace > process access anything the kernel can address. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Joel Wirāmu Pauling" <j...@aenertia.net> > Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 4:52pm > To: "Dave Taht" <dave.t...@gmail.com> > Cc: "Jonathan Morton" <chromati...@gmail.com>, cerowrt-devel@lists. > bufferbloat.net > Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] KASLR: Do we have to worry about other arches > than x86? > > Well as I've argued before Lede ideally should be using to Kernel > Namespaces (poor mans containers) for at a minimum the firewall and > per-interface routing instances. > > The stuff I am running at home is mostly on cheap Atom board, so it's a > matter of squeezing out unneeded cruft on the platform. Also I don't want > to be admining centos/rhel servers at home. > > On 5 January 2018 at 10:47, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <j...@aenertia.net> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 5 January 2018 at 01:09, Jonathan Morton <chromati...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I don't think we need to worry about it too much in a router context. >> >> Virtual server folks, OTOH... >> >> >> >> - Jonathan Morton >> >> >> > Disagree - The Router is pretty much synonymous with NFV >> > >> > ; I run my lede instances at home on hypervisors - and this is >> definitely >> > the norm in Datacentres now. We need to work through this quite >> carefully. >> >> Yes, the NFV case is serious and what I concluded we had most to worry >> about - before starting to worry about the lower end router chips >> themselves. But I wasn't aware that people were actually trying to run >> lede in that, I'd kind of expected >> a more server-like distro to be used there. Why lede in a NFV? Ease of >> configuration? Reduced attack surface? (hah) >> >> The only x86 chip I use (aside from simulations) is the AMD one in the >> apu2, which I don't know enough about as per speculation... >> >> -- >> >> Dave Täht >> CEO, TekLibre, LLC >> http://www.teklibre.com >> Tel: 1-669-226-2619 >> >
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