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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
	zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk,
	monstr@monstr.eu, ralf@linux-mips.org, paulus@samba.org,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
	lethal@linux-sh.org, x86@kernel.org, james.l.morris@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: consolidate arch-specific seccomp options
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:15:14 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1391073314.8524.115.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140130085551.GB2024@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 09:55 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:

> > From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > There are 7 architecures with "config SECCOMP".  They all have
> > virtually the same help text except for those referencing the
> > /proc interface.  The /proc interface was removed in 2007.
> > 
> > There is *NOTHING* architecture-specific about SECCOMP except
> > that the syscalls have per-architecture definitions, like every
> > other syscall.  It is absurd to have the option in the
> > arch-specific menus.
> > 
> > Move it to the security menu, consolidate the 7 down to one, and
> > remove the embarassingly-ancient help text references and
> > dependencies on /proc.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
> > Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> 

For powerpc:

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-30  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-29 19:10 [PATCH] kconfig: consolidate arch-specific seccomp options Dave Hansen
2014-01-30  8:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-30  9:15   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2014-01-30 16:48   ` Dave Hansen
2014-01-31  6:58     ` Ingo Molnar

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