Re: checklist (Re: 2.6.17-rc2-mm1)

Valerie Henson
2006-05-01T23:12:31Z

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote:
> Valerie Henson wrote:
> >
> >Honestly, the security nightmare begins with the compile. A patch to
> >the build system can result in arbitrarily insecure commands being run
> >during the compile - way easier than doing something that affects the
> >compiled kernel. A machine doing automatic compiles of untrusted
> >patches should be viewed as completely sacrificial from the beginning.
>
> True - good point ... but it's easier to chroot jail. And I'm lazy ;-)
> If anyone wants to make autotest (http://test.kernel.org/autotest)
> support some sort of virtual boot via creating a UML instance or
> something, that'd be great. But I won't hold my breath ;-)

I think you should do this, security issues be darned. Just wanted to
point out where the real concern was. And thanks in advance!

-VAL