Re: [RFC] perf: mmap2 not covering VM_CLONE regions

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Oct 02 2013 - 07:58:49 EST


On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:23:16PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So the only thing I can come up with is something like the below;
> supposedly the sha hash mixing a boot time random seed and the mm
> pointer is enough to avoid it being a data leak.

That is, right until it becomes feasible to run 2^64 SHA1 computations.
I've actually no idea how hard that is given todays GPU assisted
efforts.

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