Contributed by ray on from the zombie-cow-protection dept.
As with Otto's malloc changes, please report any suddenly misbehaving programs!CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: deraadt@ 2008/11/22 10:31:53 Modified files: sys/kern : subr_pool.c Log message: Do deadbeef-style protection in pools too, by default, even though it it is a lot slower. Before release this should be backed out, but for now we need everyone to run with this and start finding the use-after-free style bugs this exposes. original version from tedu ok everyone in the room
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By Damien Miller (djm) djm@mindrot.org on http://www.mindrot.org/~djm/
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By Anonymous Coward (82.101.210.49) on
So the request to "report any suddenly misbehaving programs" is based on the incorrect assumption that Theo's commit affects userland?
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By tedu (udet) on
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> So the request to "report any suddenly misbehaving programs" is based on the incorrect assumption that Theo's commit affects userland?
The kernel pretty much by definition affects userland, but the request would have been better phrased s/programs/behaviors.
By Ray (66.65.42.141) ray@cyth.net on http://cyth.net/~ray/
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> So the request to "report any suddenly misbehaving programs" is based on the incorrect assumption that Theo's commit affects userland?
Yes, sorry I was a bit hasty with publishing this article. Either way, though, testing is needed and much appreciated. Thanks!
By Anonymous Coward (2a01:198:25d:0:20a:e4ff:fe32:17b2) on
How about a sysctl or at least an ifdef?
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By giezet (62.143.76.164) giezet@tkk.net.pl on
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> How about a sysctl or at least an ifdef?
Hmm I remember reading a report from a hackathon long long ago. What I can remember very vividly is the conclusion that knobs should be avoided where possible. And quoting a snippet from theo.c:
"#ifdef is for emacs developers."
So, I rather doubt that this will happen :D On the other hand, what can stop us to add an #ifdef manually? We don't need to be emacs developers to accomplish that by ourselves :)
By Anonymous Coward (2a01:348:108:155:216:41ff:fe53:6a45) on
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> How about a sysctl or at least an ifdef?
Then people would disable it rather than report the problems.
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By Cabal (Cabal) on http://www.enginuity.org/
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> > How about a sysctl or at least an ifdef?
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> Then people would disable it rather than report the problems.
And people who run releases (and would never see it) would be able to turn it on.
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By tedu (udet) on
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> > > How about a sysctl or at least an ifdef?
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> > Then people would disable it rather than report the problems.
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> And people who run releases (and would never see it) would be able to turn it on.
releases don't have bugs.
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By Anonymous Coward (71.94.240.83) on
hilarity ensues
By phessler (phessler) on http://theapt.org
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> > > How about a sysctl or at least an ifdef?
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> > Then people would disable it rather than report the problems.
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> And people who run releases (and would never see it) would be able to turn it on.
the people that would turn it on, would also run snapshots. which helps to make releases all that much better.