kernel-hardening - Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH 0/6] Fork brute force attack mitigation (fbfam)

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Message-ID: <202009101656.FB68C6A@keescook>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:58:29 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: John Wood <john.wood@....com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@...gle.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH 0/6] Fork brute force attack mitigation
 (fbfam)

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 01:21:01PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: John Wood <john.wood@....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

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