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Re:Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel ... by throwa356262 on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:53PM (#48197641)
I dont belive in live patching unless you are AWS.

But I absolutely belive we should have a method for changing kernel configuration (e.g. kernel module blacklists) and syscall firewalls and alike.

Re:Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel ... by edelbitter on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:29PM (#48199090)
Easier: Do not start with a "allow all" configuration in the first place.

Maybe all of those userspace-work-done-in-kernel-because-muh-performance features should be restricted to (the "real") CAP_NET_ADMIN, unless positively enumerated as free-for-all-containers. And then subtract from that free-for-all list every time you learn that some kernel module in its currently available version cannot be trusted to do its own memory shuffling.