Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:24:26 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: Is kernel optimized with dead store removal? |
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Mikael Pettersson wrote: > It's only vulnerable if the data leaks to a less trusted domain. > There is no domain crossing in your user-space example. > In the kernel case, the domain crossing would be as I wrote: leaking > recycled and uninitialized memory to user-space (and those leaks of > uninitialized memory are frowned upon and quickly fixed when discovered).
Quickly fixed when discovered, but not necessary quickly discovered... -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- ==--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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