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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.

  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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