From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758905AbcHDRgP (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 13:36:15 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f194.google.com ([209.85.223.194]:36551 "EHLO mail-io0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758682AbcHDRgN (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 13:36:13 -0400 Message-ID: <1470332166.22643.133.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 1/2] security, perf: allow further restriction of perf_event_open From: Daniel Micay To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Kees Cook , Jeff Vander Stoep , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Alexander Shishkin , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , LKML , Jonathan Corbet Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 13:36:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160804170944.GA16464@leverpostej> References: <20160802203037.GC6879@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <87shulix2z.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <1470252976.22643.41.camel@gmail.com> <20160804102854.GB4483@leverpostej> <1470318323.22643.70.camel@gmail.com> <20160804141109.GM6879@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1470325468.22643.95.camel@gmail.com> <20160804161000.GA11673@leverpostej> <1470328352.22643.110.camel@gmail.com> <20160804170944.GA16464@leverpostej> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7X0eiBuHEsnYqyp8G4wx" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.20.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-7X0eiBuHEsnYqyp8G4wx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > My claim was not that the mainline code was impressively perfect, but > rather that the vendor code was worse, countering a prior claim > otherwise. Hence, reality. You're arguing with a straw man. I was responding to a comment about out-of-tree code, not generic architecture perf drivers vs. alternative versions by SoC vendors. Qualcomm and other vendors landing their drivers in mainline would be nice, but it wouldn't make it inherently higher quality. I don't really see what it has to do with this, which I why I responded... --=-7X0eiBuHEsnYqyp8G4wx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIzBAABCAAdBQJXo30GFhxkYW5pZWxtaWNheUBnbWFpbC5jb20ACgkQ+ecS5Zr1 8irKtw//flRVy2SRz6ez0aMo7u0wjfaAio4eaMVzaCB86dQbM+4Moq2MgDJAN/u4 mBfzqPC0QKreUnpHT/wt1mUje76fRqApCRi6On1mmkKdP/HLqgvFWyujztsekNxX dqP+kbw9rX7AYRHwyGOtPR1lmW/Lte3v04y6ZUgFZXzIH0bhe92gG979vs5/DxdC RbFq+tasV5ZIAsQzUa5twOMfRQ/MaW2mo3jixd9RmKF6AYTiw3jMOJMDVpDpmCh0 DgZA540LlZqFnOorYXRripdGYJx1Y+iXbv+5YsNXzXFaEI9Ts45bXKzwLr2XT/Lq O4d9BweQCUMloBRoWWAtJNMfmMur+W3EgervKtWHVrjv/RQXRlscCctmNromXlYZ iIfM4bGM9kHiw+YrakC3KoD72Ur5evjAuxb1dgqocfRAg2n8LbKciK0H3vE9B9nv da2pQEsQyjsDsZYrkuKTjGUejNsxGWymQza8seF2GJUaUju/V/bYWqKTnHD5wePm Z4WLhNv5KUq9pXAq09uIhB+7vMx4CgT4mQwCq44NFMzYSwx6d1tvwn5qsT5QNpQl aVt6O57U1adkqo++hQKqT4eQHAjncgO6hNsArfGArYtpqzZFKinl7WGgAqIR0ke+ r8RrDHc/bTXoJNWqWliuxjx/+zD+9kgNhd1XiHqBdyW3n3PDkRo= =K3Qo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7X0eiBuHEsnYqyp8G4wx--