Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V5 0/5] KVM: X86: Introducing ROE Protection Kernel Hardening | From | Igor Stoppa <> | Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2018 17:56:02 +0200 |
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Hello Ahmed,
On 01/11/2018 01:21, Ahmed Soliman wrote: > Hello Igor, >> This is very interesting, because it seems a very good match to the work >> I'm doing, for supporting the creation of more targets for protection: >> >> https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/10/23/3 >> >> In my case the protection would extend also to write-rate type of data. >> There is an open problem of identifying legitimate write-rare >> operations, however it should be possible to provide at least a certain >> degree of confidence. > > I have checked your patch set. In our work we were originally planning to do > something similar to write_rare just so we can differentiate between memory > chunks that may be modified and those that will be set once and never modify. > I see you are planning to do a white paper too, actually we are doing > an academic > paper based on our work. If you would like to collaborate, so that ROE > and write_rare > would integrate well from the beginning, we will be glad to do so.
The offer is very kind, thanks a lot. I will contact you in private.
-- igor
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