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[$] Fixing page-cache side channels, second attempt
Tuesday February 5, 2019. 05:40 PM , from LWN.net
The kernel's page cache, which holds copies of data stored in filesystems,
is crucial to the performance of the system as a whole. But, as has recently been demonstrated, it can also be exploited to learn about what other users in the system are doing and extract information that should be kept secret. In January, the behavior of the mincore() system call was changed in an attempt to close this vulnerability, but that solution was shown to break existing applications while not fully solving the problem. A better solution will have to wait for the 5.1 development cycle, but the shape of the proposed changes has started to come into focus.
https://lwn.net/Articles/778437/rss
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