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    SubjectRe: thoughts on kernel security issues
    William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
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    > Most of the local DoS's I'm aware of are memory management -related,
    > i.e. user- triggerable proliferation of pinned kernel data structures.

    Well. A heck of a lot of the DoS opportunities we've historically seen
    involved memory leaks, deadlocks or making the kernel go oops or BUG with
    locks held or with kernel memory allocated.

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