On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 12:32:32PM -0400, Daniel Micay wrote: > On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 17:10 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > I wasn't talking specifically about perf. Then this is irrelevant to a discussion about limiting access to the perf interface. Hardening drivers in general is a very interesting topic, but it is a different topic. > > But please, let's frame the argument to match reality. > > The argument is framed in reality. Stating that it now often takes a > few hours to find a vulnerability with the unaltered, widely known > public perf fuzzer is not impressive. It's really an argument for > claiming that it's a significant security issue. My claim was not that the mainline code was impressively perfect, but rather that the vendor code was worse, countering a prior claim otherwise. Hence, reality. There is cetainly much that can be done to improve things, if we discuss that which is actually applicable. Thanks, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
