From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Simon Brand <simon.brand@postadigitale.de>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reconsider possibility to disable icotl TIOCSTI
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 23:45:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202210142345.1101C44@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y0pIRKpPwqk2Igu/@kroah.com>
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 07:42:28AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 09:37:04PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 07:51:11PM +0000, Simon Brand wrote:
> > > please reconsider to add a possibility to disable icotl TIOCSTI.
> >
> > Yeah, please, let's. I always wanted to, and its use case is very
> > narrow. Even OpenBSD has removed it, somewhat motivated by the attempt
> > to remove it from Linux in 2017. I've sent this now:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20221015041626.1467372-2-keescook@chromium.org/
>
> Looks good to me, I'll queue it up once -rc1 is out.
Thanks! I sent a v2 to fix two small errors.
--
Kees Cook
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-14 19:51 Reconsider possibility to disable icotl TIOCSTI Simon Brand
2022-10-15 4:37 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-15 5:42 ` Greg KH
2022-10-15 6:45 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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