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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:16:36 +0000
From: "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
To: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: Introduction and task request
>> What would be the reasonable task for me to do?
> I always suggest people work on stuff that interests them. Do you have any
> specific areas you like working on, or exploits you'd like to see stopped?
I guess ideally people subscribed to this list want all exploits to be stopped
:) But seriously I don't have any preference at least for now. Since I will
have to learn a lot in this area I want to start from something which would be
a reasonable and useful for this project piece of work, that's why I was
asking for suggestions.
>> I am quite a newbie in proper kernel development work (but not a
>> newbie in platform security), so please as initial task do not through
>> to me the biggest dead animal out there with the task to revive it.
>Heh, understood. We'll be happy to assist you through whatever parts you
>might want help with.
Thank you!
>> It is going to be a learning exercise for me at least at the
>> beginning, but I am hoping to learn fast and start bringing value to the
>> project.
>I had mentioned PAX_USERCOPY earlier. I'm not sure how much work that'll be,
>but extracting it would be the first step, and you can go from there. There's
>no one actively working on it at the moment, and it would be very nice to
>have.
Casey is taking care of that, so I will leave it to him.
> Or perhaps looking into the prior BPF_HARDEN work (currently this just
> disables eBPF, but it used to try to defend against trivial heap-sprays).
This sounds smth that I can look into. I will be back when I have something
reasonable ready or researched enough for sensible questions/discussion
points. I will be away for long holidays until Jan 10, but hoping to return
with plenty of energy :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!
Best Regards,
Elena.
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