Re: Fedora 37: Add kernel parameters that help prevent local exploits

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On Saturday, 21 May 2022 19:31:59 BST Glorious Hellosway via devel wrote:
> For `slab_nomerge`, it can lead to very slight increase of kernel memory.
> `init_on_alloc=1` has a almost no performance impact, it is under 1% and is
> usually within standard error, but there is bug with zfs that can make zfs
> slower. `init_on_free=1` can be measured and is around 7-20% under certain
> workloads, but in some workloads it does not impact performance.
> `randomize_kstack_offset=on` can sometimes increase performance by 1%, or
> decrease it by 1%, but Redis has been noticed to have performance reduced
> by 2%. `pti=on` mitigates meltdown, but has a very big performance impact.

That doesn't answer my core question: why aren't these the defaults in the 
upstream kernel, with the command line options there for turning them off if 
they impact you?

-- 
Simon Farnsworth

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