Defending against Rowhammer in the kernel
Defending against Rowhammer in the kernel
Posted Oct 28, 2016 16:32 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)Parent article: Defending against Rowhammer in the kernel
Interesting.
I wonder if it would be possible with the current perf system calls to tell the kernel "stop this thread if it has too many cache misses". That could be used by for instance Javascript interpreters to protect themselves against rowhammer attacks attempting to escape the sandbox. In the common scenario of "everything running on this machine is trusted except the Javascript running in the browser", that might be very useful.