[Cerowrt-devel] KASLR: Do we have to worry about other arches than x86?

[Dave Taht]

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net> wrote:
> Well as I've argued before Lede ideally should be using to Kernel Namespaces
> (poor mans containers) for at a minimum the firewall and per-interface
> routing instances.

Enough stuff landed in the last kernel for me to finally consider that feasible.

>
> The stuff I am running at home is mostly on cheap Atom board, so it's a
> matter of squeezing out unneeded cruft on the platform. Also I don't want to
> be admining centos/rhel servers at home.

OK, so currently shipped gear is a big unknown then.

>
> On 5 January 2018 at 10:47, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 5 January 2018 at 01:09, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I don't think we need to worry about it too much in a router context.
>> >> Virtual server folks, OTOH...
>> >>
>> >>  - Jonathan Morton
>> >>
>> > Disagree - The Router is pretty much synonymous with NFV
>> >
>> > ; I run my lede instances at home on hypervisors - and this is
>> > definitely
>> > the norm in Datacentres now. We need to work through this quite
>> > carefully.
>>
>> Yes, the NFV case is serious and what I concluded we had most to worry
>> about - before starting to worry about the lower end router chips
>> themselves. But I wasn't aware that people were actually trying to run
>> lede in that, I'd kind of expected
>> a more server-like distro to be used there. Why lede in a NFV? Ease of
>> configuration? Reduced attack surface? (hah)
>>
>> The only x86 chip I use (aside from simulations) is the AMD one in the
>> apu2, which I don't know enough about as per speculation...
>>
>> --
>>
>> Dave Täht
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>
>



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