Re: [CFT] ASLR, PIE, and segvguard on 11-current and 10-stable

Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr_at_gmail.com> writes:
> Two idea here:
> a) create a tunable security.pax.expert_mode, and create sysctls at
> boot time depending from expert mode
> b) just add CTLFLAG_SKIP and hide the sysctl from normal user

The cost of an unused sysctl is about a hundred bytes of kernel memory.
What is the cost of the code required to turn it on and off, keeping in
mind that most of the contents of the struct sysctl_oid must be present
anyway so you can fill in the malloc()ed node?

DES
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