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From: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] What to send to Andrew next
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:05:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <417CC1D7.7000605@fujitsu-siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410222128.i9MLSmWY005910@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

Jeff Dike wrote:
> blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it said:
> 
>>1) FOR INSTANCE, I sent the patch avoiding SIGPROF being touched by
>>change_signals(). Why did not you bother at it? 
>>2) copy_from_user_skas() does not make sense. When accessing the page
>>tables,  they would be happy to get some locking. If you want to take
>>a look to the  4G-4G patch from Ingo Molnar, which must do something
>>identical,  
> 
> 
> Because I lost them, probably.  I'll go look for them.
> 
> 
>>Well, yes, but let's try to be fast on these. They are very good
>>patches and  fix also security problems. 
> 
> 
> Yeah, syscall-security-* can go in now.  I want to see his test cases before
> pushing the signal delivery stuff though.
> 
> 
I'm working to integrate the bulk of tiny tests into a few more handy programs,
they will be mailed as fast as possible.

On your list of incremental patches, there are still missing syscall-security-4
and -5, which fix a bug and a incorrect interpretation in the previos patches.
Is this intentionally?

And to close all holes I've seen so far, the TRACESYSGOOD patches are needed
(Test-case included in breakout.c).

Bodo


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-22  5:16 [uml-devel] What to send to Andrew next Jeff Dike
2004-10-22 16:52 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-10-22 21:28   ` Jeff Dike
2004-10-23  3:57     ` BlaisorBlade
2004-10-25  9:05     ` Bodo Stroesser [this message]

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