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From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH 0/6] Fork brute force attack mitigation
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 01:21:01PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: John Wood <john.wood@gmx.com>
> 
> The goal of this patch serie is to detect and mitigate a fork brute force
> attack.

Thanks for this RFC! I'm excited to get this problem finally handled in
the kernel. Hopefully the feedback is useful. :)

-- 
Kees Cook