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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] x86/ldt: allow to disable modify_ldt at runtime



On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 03:35:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Yay for perm disable! Thank you! :)
>
> Andy would like to see this evolve towards something possibly
> more complete and/or generic. I think this needs more thoughts
> and that we should possibly stick to 0/1 for now and decide how
> we want to make this evolve later to cover permanent disable,
> various ABIs, etc...
>
> What do you think ?

That's probably the best way forward. I still think a generic syscall
disabling feature would be nice. :) I won't have time to work on it
for a little while, though.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security

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