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Re:Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel component... by rurban on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @06:49PM (#18341913)
It's fast but certainly not safe. it has native arrays, with which you can easily exploit spectre or meltdown issues. to be safe you need to turn it off.
Re:Facebook open-sources new suite of Linux kernel component... by monocasa on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @06:58PM (#18341956)
The MAP_ARRAY access goes through an external function call, which gives you a nice place to hook for mitigations. And this stuff is going to have to be fixed properly, as running sandboxed untrusted code in a higher context is waaayyy to useful in a post Moore's law world. Kernels like XOK relied on similar techniques up and down their system call layer; it had three different virtual machines.