From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: jmorris@namei.org, morgan@kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, serue@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-process securebits
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:00:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080204140004.c2f82638.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080204181721.GA8758@ucw.cz>
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:17:22 +0000
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Fri 2008-02-01 20:07:01, James Morris wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > Really? I'd feel a lot more comfortable if yesterday's version 1 had led
> > > to a stream of comments from suitably-knowledgeable kernel developers which
> > > indicated that those developers had scrutinised this code from every
> > > conceivable angle and had declared themselves 100% happy with it.
> >
> > FWIW, I've reviewed the patch in detail a couple of times, and don't see
> > any issues with it that haven't already been raised by Serge.
> >
> > You can add my reviewed-by.
> >
> > I think it does need more eyes, and some time baking in -mm.
>
> I don't thing -mm baking helps here. People playing with -mm are not
> the ones trying to hack your box.
>
That's for sure. Whitebox testing and really really careful review
is our best shot with this stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-04 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-01 8:11 [PATCH] per-process securebits Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-01 8:28 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-01 9:07 ` James Morris
2008-02-04 18:17 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-04 22:00 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-03 6:01 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-03 6:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-03 6:25 ` Ismail Dönmez
2008-02-04 0:49 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-04 0:54 ` Ismail Dönmez
2008-02-04 1:10 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-04 16:45 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-02-05 1:15 ` Ismail Dönmez
2008-02-01 20:15 ` serge
2008-02-03 6:11 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-05 18:46 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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