Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 May 2009 10:48:50 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] Support for sanitization flag in low-level page allocator |
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Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 15:30 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >>> Right, so the whole point is to minimize the impact of actual bugs, >>> right? So why not focus on fixing those actual bugs? Can we create tools >>> to help us find such bugs faster? We use sparse for a lot of static >>> checking, we create things like lockdep and kmemcheck to dynamically >>> find trouble. >>> >>> Can we instead of working around a problem, fix the actual problem? >> Why do cars have crashworthiness and seatbelts ? Why not fix the actual >> problem (driving errors) ? I mean lets face it they make the vehicle >> heavier, less fuel efficient, less fun and more annoying to use. > > We can't find every crash bug either, yet we still ship the kernel and > people actually use it too. > > What makes these security bugs so much more important than all the other > ones?
The fact that we can do something about them.
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