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Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel?

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.kernel
Subject Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel?
Date 2020-04-13 15:30 +0200
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On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 09:28 -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 04:52:07PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> > I'm not sure I'd focus too much on the security implications of KSM,
> > though, since it's widely enabled in Debian's generic kernel and kernels
> > distributed by other distros.  I don't want to cargo-cult it, but
> > neither do I want to ignore prior art.
> 
> If it's that widely available, then I think that's a good indicator that
> the issues aren't driving practical attacks.  So I think we shouldn't
> refuse it due to the security questions.

Enabling CONFIG_KSM only means that the feature is available.  It's not
active by default, so it should have no security impact unless the
administrator chooses to enable it (through /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run).

Ben.

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What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel? Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-04-01 21:20 +0200
  Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel? Tom Ladd <losblues2000@gmail.com> - 2020-04-02 19:50 +0200
  Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel? Ross Vandegrift <rvandegrift@debian.org> - 2020-04-02 20:40 +0200
    Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel? Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-04-02 23:00 +0200
      Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel? Ross Vandegrift <rvandegrift@debian.org> - 2020-04-03 18:50 +0200
        Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-04-13 15:30 +0200
    Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel? Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-04-04 17:50 +0200
  Re: What belongs in the Debian cloud kernel? Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2020-04-04 01:40 +0200

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