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08:45 · Oct 1, 2022 · Sat
A call to reconsider memory address-space isolation in Linux
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A call to reconsider address-space isolation
When the kernel is running, it has access to its entire address space —
usually including all of physical memory — even
if only a small portion of that address space is actually needed. That
increases the kernel's vulnerability to speculative attacks. An…
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