Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752906AbcDFTLX (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2016 15:11:23 -0400 Received: from pic75-3-78-194-244-226.fbxo.proxad.net ([78.194.244.226]:51524 "EHLO molly.corsac.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752285AbcDFTLW (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2016 15:11:22 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1080 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:11:22 EDT Message-ID: <1459969867.2818.28.camel@debian.org> Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH] KERNEL: resource: Fix bug on leakage in /proc/iomem file From: Yves-Alexis Perez To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" , Kees Cook , Emrah Demir , Dan Rosenberg , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:11:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <1459947782-5071-1-git-send-email-ed@abdsec.com> <5e5e7c7ced7bede343530ed1447d7453@abdsec.com> <1459968792.2818.22.camel@debian.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3YVxs4q1aGb2+bPdIUBO" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.1-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 37 --=-3YVxs4q1aGb2+bPdIUBO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On mer., 2016-04-06 at 12:02 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So yeah, maybe swap partitions are still more common than I thought. > And I didn't even consider the possibility that people would hibernate > a desktop like you do. To be fair, it's *my* use case, because suspend won't work but I'm lazy and don't like to reopen everything I was doing, but still have to shut the machine down once in a while (or to save power). And *I* would gladly trade hibernation for kaslr and PAX_SANITIZE on those desktops. Regards, --=20 Yves-Alexis --=-3YVxs4q1aGb2+bPdIUBO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJXBV9LAAoJEG3bU/KmdcClt04IAIiNYvXedcpWh5zLSonUVJEN VRdllEt+im+0Mk1fVaVyJDqcHpc4296+2822ZFRdGpda4UGnoBEoOVsrZPPEwHju jTK3JotmkK1f/m970BHbiBuJ/h2I/vIMnIlv/Cyfey+AWCOeElyvolRjgg1sG7sK yO5WRkhtmGwpMqG1af+1sAnt+mdfiiZwpH53DLKlp5M1bCmpiLVE3wjjWDN7V+2H lcG+t/etEQo1BDT6pu7G2FZvieHRbm4Mzwp/X4BoIDUszIP7ZtPnu8ojtJI2FLfo 6rZpPXG2XS/KpUFQnjIeVdM3lYwWq3qmnut6qDyCQyjgBUITn7nQUOnC6bNwazI= =fDkg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3YVxs4q1aGb2+bPdIUBO--