Cook: security things in Linux v4.11

Kees Cook has done his usual roundup of new security features, this time for the 4.11 kernel. It lists seven different features and fixes with security implications, including: "A common way attackers use to escape confinement is by rewriting the user-mode helper sysctls (e.g. /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe) to run something of their choosing in the init namespace. To reduce attack surface within the kernel, Greg KH introduced CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER, which switches all user-mode helper binaries to a single read-only path (which defaults to /sbin/usermode-helper). Userspace will need to support this with a new helper tool that can demultiplex the kernel request to a set of known binaries."