On Mon, 29 May 2017, Boris Lukashev wrote: > With all due respect sir, i believe your review falls short of the > purpose of this effort - to harden the kernel against flaws in > userspace.
Which effort? Kernel self protection is about protecting against flaws in the kernel. See: https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Project "This project starts with the premise that kernel bugs have a very long lifetime, and that the kernel must be designed in ways to protect against these flaws." We need to avoid conflating: - hardening the kernel against attack; and - modifying the kernel to try and harden userspace. These patches are the latter, and the case for them is not as straightforward. - James -- James Morris <jmor...@namei.org>
