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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:34:42 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v9 0/7] Introduce the STACKLEAK feature and a test for it

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
> This is the 9th version of the patch series introducing STACKLEAK to the
> mainline kernel. STACKLEAK is a security feature developed by Grsecurity/PaX
> (kudos to them), which:
>  - reduces the information that can be revealed through kernel stack leak bugs;
>  - blocks some uninitialized stack variable attacks (e.g. CVE-2017-17712,
>     CVE-2010-2963);
>  - introduces some runtime checks for kernel stack overflow detection.

Thanks for continuing to chip away at this! I wonder if it's time to
drop the "RFC" part of this? It seems like this should be ready to
land pretty soon. I can start carrying this in the kspp -next tree,
for example. I'd like to get some sign-off from x86, though.

Boris, Andy, and Dave (Hansen), you've all looked at this; would you
be willing to give an Ack on the x86 parts? (Though I do now see a new
comment from Dave was just sent.) And if not, what changes would you
like to see?

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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