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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:35:53 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Kernel Self Protection Project

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:55 PM, David Windsor <dave@...141.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:44 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:50:04 -0800, Kees Cook said:
>>
>> > Yeah. Does anyone want to also extract PAX_USERCOPY or
>> > GRKERNSEC_KSTACKOVERFLOW ? No one has mentioned an interest in those
>> > yet.
>>
>> I'll commit to at least looking at PAX_USERCOPY.  Looks reasonably
>> stand-alone.
>
> The problem is cherrypicking these things from the original patchsets.  I'm
> doing that now for PAX_REFCOUNT, and it's proving more difficult than I
> originally expected.

Yes! Things are rather intertwined. :)

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security

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