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Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:08:57 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: restrict pid namespaces to 32 or 64 bit syscalls

Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

>"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> writes:
>>
>> IA64 is totally different.  I'm extremely sceptical to this patch; it
>feels like putting code in a super-hot path to paper over a problem
>that has to be fixed anyway.
>
>Sounds to me a better alternative would be more aggressive, pro-active
>fuzzing of the compat calls.
>
>-Andi
>
>-- 
>ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

Agreed.  Other than that, I can see a fine-grained permission filter, but the compat vs noncompat axis is just spurious.
-- 
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