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Re:The status of Linux kernel hardening by micaksica on Thursday November 10, 2016 @02:12AM (#12918365)
KASLR: Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomiza... for an overview on what this does.

SMAP/SMEP: Intel/x86-specific security features. See http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=783 for an early (2011!) take on SMEP. (j00ru is great reading, in any case.) See https://lwn.net/Articles/517475/ for SMAP from LWN.

PAN: Privileged Access Never, Basically ARM SMAP: https://community.arm.com/groups/processors/blog/2014/12/02/...

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