Re: [PATCH V5 0/5] KVM: X86: Introducing ROE Protection Kernel Hardening

[Igor Stoppa]

Hello Ahmed,

On 01/11/2018 01:21, Ahmed Soliman wrote:
> Hello Igor,
> > This is very interesting, because it seems a very good match to the work
> > I'm doing, for supporting the creation of more targets for protection:
> >
> > https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/10/23/3
> >
> > In my case the protection would extend also to write-rate type of data.
> > There is an open problem of identifying legitimate write-rare
> > operations, however it should be possible to provide at least a certain
> > degree of confidence.
>
> I have checked your patch set. In our work we were originally planning to do
> something similar to write_rare just so we can differentiate between memory
> chunks that may be modified and those that will be set once and never modify.
> I see you are planning to do a white paper too, actually we are doing
> an academic
> paper based on our work. If you would like to collaborate, so that ROE
> and write_rare
> would integrate well from the beginning, we will be glad to do so.

The offer is very kind, thanks a lot.
I will contact you in private.

--
igor