On 04.05.23 23:30, Michael McCracken wrote:
Add config RO_RANDMAP_SYSCTL to set the mode of the randomize_va_space sysctl to 0444 to disallow all runtime changes. This will prevent accidental changing of this value by a root service. The config is disabled by default to avoid surprises.
Can you elaborate why we care about "accidental changing of this value by a root service"?
We cannot really stop root from doing a lot of stupid things (e.g., erase the root fs), so why do we particularly care here?
-- Thanks, David / dhildenb
