[GIT PULL] KEYS: changes for v7.4-rc1

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko at kernel.org
Thu Oct 22 20:53:06 UTC 2026


On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 10:06:56AM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 at 04:22, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > A patch that Kyle Zeng submitted addresses a critical bug [..]
> 
> Note that breaking local KASLR is not a "critical bug". We just call
> it "Thursday".
> 
> Breaking KASRL locally is trivial using just all the normal local CPU
> timing attacks.
> 
> KASLR is there to make remote attacks harder.
> 
>                Linus

Ok, that's fair and makes sense.

Br, Jarkko



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