Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 04:58:29PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 01:21:01PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > From: John Wood <john.wood@xxxxxxx> > > > > The goal of this patch serie is to detect and mitigate a fork brute force > > attack. > > Thanks for this RFC! I'm excited to get this problem finally handled in > the kernel. Hopefully the feedback is useful. :) Kees and Jann, Thank you very much for your comments and advices. I'm a newbie in the linux kernel development and this is my first attempt. So, I would prefer to study all your comments before to reply since a big amount of terms you expose are unknown to me. In other words, a late reply to this serie comments is not a lack of interest. Moreover, I think it would be better that I try to understand and to implement your ideas before anything else. My original patch serie is composed of 9 patches, so the 3 lasts are lost. Kees: Have you removed them for some reason? Can you send them for review? security/fbfam: Add two new prctls to enable and disable the fbfam feature https://github.com/johwood/linux/commit/8a36399847213e7eb7b45b853568a53666bd0083 Documentation/security: Add documentation for the fbfam feature https://github.com/johwood/linux/commit/fb46804541f5c0915f3f48acefbe6dc998815609 MAINTAINERS: Add a new entry for the fbfam feature https://github.com/johwood/linux/commit/4303bc8935334136c6ef47b5e50b87cd2c472c1f Is there a problem if I ask for some guidance (replying to this thread) during the process to do my second patch series? My goal is to learn as much as possible doing something useful for the linux kernel. Thanks a lot, John Wood > -- > Kees Cook
