> > Ingo, do you want protection against shell code injection ? Have the
> > kernel to assign random stack addresses to processes and they won't be
> > able to guess the stack pointer to place the jump. I use a very simple
> > trick in my code :
>
> stack randomisation is already present in the kernel, in the form of
> cacheline coloring for HT cpus...
we could make it even more prominent than just coloring, to introduce the
kind of variability that Davide's approach introduces. It has to be a
separate patch obviously. This would further reduce the chance that a
remote attack that has to guess the stack would succeed on a random box.
Ingo
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