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I'm not happy about the entire concept of running user code in the kernel. As a special-purpose hack for servers that do very little else, maybe. As a standard OS feature, it seems to create too big an attack surface. One which has been exploited.[1]

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/23/chinese_nsa_linux/

parent Animats 3 years ago

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