From: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.6
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:04:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121003210407.GC9092@outflux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121003220525.780cf3f2@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:05:25PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If this happens, I _really_ want to bring back the CONFIG options I had in
> > an earlier version of this patch. I want to be able to declare the default
> > at build time, and not leave a system vulnerable from boot until sysctls
> > get set.
>
> If your early boot code trusts a random writeable user directory I think
> you have other problems.
You should see some of the things various Android devices do! :)
-Kees
--
Kees Cook @outflux.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-01 0:38 Linux 3.6 Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 19:46 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-03 20:05 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 20:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 20:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-03 20:49 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 20:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 20:58 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 21:05 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-03 21:04 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2012-10-04 13:35 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-04 15:49 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-04 16:03 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-04 16:14 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-04 17:16 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-04 21:30 ` Stefan Richter
2012-10-09 18:51 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-03 20:49 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-03 22:23 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-10-03 23:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
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