On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:43:42AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:08:36 +0100 > Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 10:30:16PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> > > > wrote: > > > > In at least one place (mpls) you are patching a fast path. Compile out > > > > or don't load mpls by all means. But it is not acceptable to change the > > > > fast path without even considering performance. > > > > > > Performance matters greatly, but I need help to identify a workload > > > that is representative for this fast path to see what, if any, impact > > > is incurred. Even better is a review that says "nope, 'index' is not > > > subject to arbitrary userspace control at this point, drop the patch." > > > > I think we're focussing a little too much on pure userspace. That is, we > > should be saying under the attackers control. Inbound network packets > > could equally be under the attackers control. > > Inbound network packets don't come with a facility to read back and do > cache timimg.
But could they not be used in conjunction with a local task to prime the stuff?
