From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ima-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATHC v2 0/9] ima: carry the measurement list across kexec
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:21:29 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2846678.ltpVeSnPm7@hactar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg42xtzn.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
Am Donnerstag, 29 September 2016, 16:43:08 schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
> Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> > Hello Eric,
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 20 September 2016, 11:07:29 schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
> >> A semi-generic concept called a hand-over buffer seems to be a
> >> construction of infrustructure for no actual reason that will just
> >> result in confusion. There are lots of things that are handed over,
> >> the
> >> flattend device tree, ramdisks, bootparams on x86, etc, etc. ima is
> >> not
> >> special in this execpt for being perhaps the first addition that we are
> >> going to want the option of including on most architectures.
> >
> > Ok, I understand. I decided to implement a generic concept because I
> > thought that proposing a feature that is more useful than what I need
> > it for would increase its chance of being accepted. It's interesting to
> > see that it had the opposite effect.
>
> Yes. In this case it was not clear that anyone else could use it, and
> being less generic you can tweak the needs of the code to ima without
> anyone having to worry about it.
>
> So thank you very much for making the code more specific to the
> circumstances.
Thank you very much for your feedback and your reviews!
--
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-30 22:40 [PATHC v2 0/9] ima: carry the measurement list across kexec Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 1/9] ima: on soft reboot, restore the measurement list Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 2/9] ima: permit duplicate measurement list entries Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 3/9] ima: maintain memory size needed for serializing the measurement list Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 4/9] ima: serialize the binary_runtime_measurements Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 5/9] ima: on soft reboot, save the measurement list Mimi Zohar
2016-09-01 1:57 ` Dave Young
2016-09-02 13:22 ` Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 6/9] ima: store the builtin/custom template definitions in a list Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 7/9] ima: support restoring multiple template formats Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 8/9] ima: define a canonical binary_runtime_measurements list format Mimi Zohar
2016-08-30 22:40 ` [PATHC v2 9/9] ima: platform-independent hash value Mimi Zohar
2016-08-31 20:50 ` [PATHC v2 0/9] ima: carry the measurement list across kexec Andrew Morton
2016-08-31 22:38 ` Mimi Zohar
2016-09-15 15:44 ` Mimi Zohar
2016-09-16 19:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-09-16 21:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-09-16 23:32 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-09-17 5:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-09-18 21:25 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-09-20 16:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-09-26 18:31 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-09-29 21:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-09-29 22:21 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
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