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

Valerie Henson
2006-05-01T21:21:59Z

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:03:23PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Martin Bligh wrote:
> >>[...]
> >I don't want to boot it, as that gets into security nightmares, but I
> >should be able to provide something that does static testing.
>
> Actually, booting might not be that bad using a virtual machine with qemu.

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.

-VAL