Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: restrict access to /proc/slabinfo

[Pekka Enberg]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Isn't this
>> much stronger protection especially if you combine that with /proc/slabinfo
>> restriction?
>
> I don't see any reason to change allocators if we close slabinfo.

OK, so what about /proc/meminfo, sysfs, 'perf kmem', and other kernel interfaces
through which you can get direct or indirect information about kernel memory
allocations?

                                Pekka
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