From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.158.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3slTZB2tf0zDskL for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:21:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098417.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.17/8.16.0.17) with SMTP id u8TMHiUu008061 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:21:36 -0400 Received: from e24smtp04.br.ibm.com (e24smtp04.br.ibm.com [32.104.18.25]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 25s8st6d8e-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:21:35 -0400 Received: from localhost by e24smtp04.br.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:21:33 -0300 Received: from d24relay01.br.ibm.com (d24relay01.br.ibm.com [9.8.31.16]) by d24dlp02.br.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D461DC006F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:21:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d24av04.br.ibm.com (d24av04.br.ibm.com [9.8.31.97]) by d24relay01.br.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id u8TMLVpC4927662 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:21:31 -0300 Received: from d24av04.br.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d24av04.br.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id u8TMLU6X013780 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:21:31 -0300 From: Thiago Jung Bauermann To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Mimi Zohar , Andrew Morton , linux-security-module , linux-ima-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Dave Young , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell Subject: Re: [PATHC v2 0/9] ima: carry the measurement list across kexec Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:21:29 -0300 In-Reply-To: <87eg42xtzn.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> References: <1472596811-9596-1-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1743059.2ZOQaNILxh@hactar> <87eg42xtzn.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <2846678.ltpVeSnPm7@hactar> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Am Donnerstag, 29 September 2016, 16:43:08 schrieb Eric W. Biederman: > Thiago Jung Bauermann 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