From: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:38:25 -0600
> I am, of course, biased, but I think the evidence of actual > refcounting attacks outweighs the theoretical performance cost of > these changes. This is not theoretical at all. We count the nanoseconds that every packet takes to get processed and you are adding quite a bit. I understand your point of view, but this is knowingly going to add performance regressions to the networking code.
