[$] More timing side-channels for the page cache
Date:
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:59:14 +0000
Description:
In 2019, researchers published a way to identify which file-backed pages were being accessed on a system using timing information from the page cache, leading to a handful of unpleasant consequences and a change to the design of the mincore() system call. Discussion at the time led to a number of ad-hoc patches to address the
problem. The lack of new page-cache attacks suggested that attempts to fix things in a piecemeal fashion had succeeded. Now, however, Sudheendra Raghav Neela,
Jonas Juffinger, Lukas Maar, and Daniel Gruss have found a new set of
holes in the Linux kernel's page-cache-timing protections that allow
the same general class of attack.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1061743/
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