[grsec] Grsec + slabinfo

Carlos Carvalho carlos at fisica.ufpr.br
Sat May 29 17:37:40 EDT 2010


Brad Spengler (spender at grsecurity.net) wrote on 29 May 2010 09:42:
 >> Is this something that can get accepted into grsec?  I'm not sure there
 >> are any serious security problems giving out this info to root.  This
 >> would be like CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC but for slabinfo rather than processes.
 >
 >I agree with the idea.
[...]
 >I'll fix this up and include it in the next patch.

While you're at it, I've noticed that the SysRq keys
(CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ) also don't work. Would it be possible to put them
back? They're no security risk since they must be used at the console;
I don't know if the implementation opens vulnerabilities though.


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