On Sun, 2018-01-21 at 17:21 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Because putting something like this into an ELF flag raises the question of who is > allowed to set the flag - does a user-compiled binary count? If yes then it would > be a trivial thing for local exploits to set the flag and turn off the barrier. You can only allow *yourself* to be exploited that way. The flag says, "I'm OK, you don't need to protect me".
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