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Message-ID: <m2ei0olnua.fsf@firstfloor.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:38:05 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
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

"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

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