Hi, On 2019-08-28 14:47:04 -0400, Joshua Brindle wrote: > A prime example is madvise() which was a catastrophic failure that 1) > isn't preventable by any LSM including SELinux, 2) isn't used by PG > and is therefore a good candidate for a kill list, and 3) a clear win > in the dont-let-PG-be-a-vector-for-kernel-compromise arena.
IIRC it's used by glibc as part of its malloc implementation (also threading etc) - but not necessarily hit during the most common paths. That's *precisely* my problem with this approach. Greetings, Andres Freund