Article 5G800 Cook: Security things in Linux v5.9

Cook: Security things in Linux v5.9

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Kees Cook has posted along list of security-related improvements that made it into the 5.9kernel release. "Sasha Levin, Andy Lutomirski, Chang S. Bae, AndiKleen, Tony Luck, Thomas Gleixner, and others landed the long-awaitedFSGSBASE series. This provides task switching performance improvementswhile keeping the kernel safe from modules accidentally (or maliciously)trying to use the features directly (which exposed an unprivileged directkernel access hole)."
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