On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:18:01AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But maybe even those aren't worth worrying about. At least they do the > unmasking outside the loop - although then in the case of execve(), > the string copies themselves are obviously done in a loop anyway. > > Kirill, do you have clear numbers for that static key being a noticeable win? Numbers would be good; I think this all started as a precaution, but clearly that's not really working out so well :/