LWN: Comments on "Cook: security things in Linux v5.4" https://lwn.net/Articles/812782/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Cook: security things in Linux v5.4". en-us Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:26:02 +0000 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:26:02 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net Cook: security things in Linux v5.4 https://lwn.net/Articles/813390/ https://lwn.net/Articles/813390/ zdzichu <div class="FormattedComment"> Security has a notoriety for interfering with many things. Now security (lockdown) clashes with BPF used for security. Quite an ouroboros.<br> </div> Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:14:37 +0000 Cook: security things in Linux v5.4 https://lwn.net/Articles/813270/ https://lwn.net/Articles/813270/ bgregg <div class="FormattedComment"> The current implementation of Lockdown breaks BPF tracing (and more), which my company uses for security intrusion detection and other security things, and performance analysis. Disabling BPF on enterprise servers is a non-starter, as many companies now have numerous BPF applications running by default.<br> </div> Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:14:19 +0000