[PATCH] Insert random noops to increase security against ROP attacks (llvm)

Philip Reames listmail at philipreames.com
Tue Jan 6 21:10:23 PST 2015


On 01/06/2015 06:27 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> I would really like to stop debating whether this is worth having. It 
> isn't productive. Not everyone needs to believe this is worth having, 
> the folks contributing it and the folks reviewing and maintaining it 
> as part of LLVM do. It seems quite clear that is the case. Let's move 
> on, and leave the security experts at various organizations trying to 
> harden various servers to weigh the benefits of different mitigation 
> techniques.
I want to strongly second this part of Chandler's point.

Philip



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