Good technical breakdown of the meltdown resulting from the latest Crowdstrike update (link in comments). Tl;dr #kerneldrivers open up all kinds of risks – including system degradation or even outages. When we built Senser, we were aware of these risks – from our own experience putting out fires as a result of errors in driver code. That's why we used #eBPF tech for lightweight, non-intrusive data collection. eBPF programs are executed in an isolated environment (so they can’t access or modify sensitive kernel data structures) and go through a verification process before they are loaded into the kernel. Of course comprehensive data collection is just the first step in smart observability. But today's meltdown shows the devastating cost of outages and the risks of kernel drivers – a good reminder of the benefits of safe, secure, and lightweight system monitoring.
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As systems become online after the CrowdStrike nullptr issue of yesterday, I can’t stop wondering if this can change Microsoft’s exception handling in kernel space. So a driver access the first page because it has a logical error - ok. Page isn’t there, no real harm can be done. OS know knows this driver has an issue - why dowsn’t the OS try to remedy the situation instead of just putting both hands in the air and giving up? Why not attempt to unload the driver, unhook it or whatever means possible instead of BSOD? Report it back via telemetry and make sure the driver doesn’t load again? Maybe this can be a policy setting companies can configure - in critical systems giving up this easily could be avoided? Just my 2 cents….
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🦅💥 The CrowdStrike outage was caused by an invalid configuration update. 📄👨⚖️ A "Channel File" caused the blue screens of death, which appears to store policy rules for the Falcon protection system as suggested by two CrowdStrike patents. 🤔 Takeaway: The risk around configuration systems is obvious. As engineering teams are expected to ship faster, tooling must catch up to prevent entire classes of issues like this in the future. Sources: https://lnkd.in/gYc3Zh5h https://lnkd.in/g5ZfqQrA
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