On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:05:17PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Okay but that means that the brute force attack can just continue > because the attacked daemon will be respawned? > > You need some way to stop the respawning, otherwise the > mitigation doesn't work for daemons. > I will work on your solution regarding respawned daemons (use wait*() to inform userspace that the offending processes killed by the mitigation exited due to this mitigation -> then the supervisor can adopt their own policy). > > -Andi > Thank you very much, John Wood