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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:32:09 +0200
From: John Wood <john.wood@....com>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] security/fbfam: Add a Kconfig to enable the
fbfam feature
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:21:58PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 10:21 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> > From: John Wood <john.wood@....com>
> >
> > Add a menu entry under "Security options" to enable the "Fork brute
> > force attack mitigation" feature.
> [...]
> > +config FBFAM
>
> Please give this a more descriptive name than FBFAM. Some name where,
> if a random kernel developer sees an "#ifdef" with that name in some
> random piece of kernel code, they immediately have a rough idea for
> what kind of feature this is.
>
> Perhaps something like THROTTLE_FORK_CRASHES. Or something else that
> is equally descriptive.
Ok, understood. This will be fixed for the next version. Thanks.
> > + bool "Fork brute force attack mitigation"
> > + default n
>
> "default n" is superfluous and should AFAIK be omitted.
Ok. I will remove it. Thanks.
> > + help
> > + This is a user defense that detects any fork brute force attack
> > + based on the application's crashing rate. When this measure is
> > + triggered the fork system call is blocked.
>
> This help text claims that the mitigation will block fork(), but patch
> 6/6 actually kills the process hierarchy.
Sorry, it's a mistake. It was the first idea but finally the implementation
changed and this description not was modified. Apologies. It will be fixed
for the next version.
Thanks,
John Wood
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