Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:04:44 -0800 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hardening: Enable KFENCE in the hardening config |
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 02:01:09PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote: > KFENCE is not a security mitigation mechanism (due to sampling), but has > the performance characteristics of unintrusive hardening techniques. > When used at scale, however, it improves overall security by allowing > kernel developers to detect heap memory-safety bugs cheaply. > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/79B9A832-B3DE-4229-9D87-748B2CFB7D12@kernel.org > Cc: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Thanks! Applied to my for-next/hardening tree.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next/hardening&id=1f82cb2f3859540120e990a79abfee8151ea6b93
-Kees
-- Kees Cook
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