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From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Tim Gardner <timg@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:57:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802065746.GS3948@outflux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1008021639230.32603@tundra.namei.org>

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 04:41:08PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Well, at least I'll have something for my summit presentation again.
> > 
> > On the other hand, it's rather hard for me to defend against a private NAK.
> 
> It's the same nak as before -- I concluded there was consensus on the 
> lists, but was wrong.
> 
> > James, will it stay in security-testing for .37 hopefully?
> 
> Not with this approach, I'd imagine.

I'm sorry to appear dense, but the most recent NAK from Christoph was
here[1], which was for a patch to Yama that is not in security-testing
yet. Prior to that, all I could find was this[2] which explicitly asked
me to put stuff in a special LSM.

I really would like to see it in mainline, but next steps are not clear.

-Kees

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/30/31
[2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/1/78

-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-30  8:59 Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36 James Morris
2010-08-02  2:18 ` James Morris
2010-08-02  6:32   ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02  6:41     ` James Morris
2010-08-02  6:57       ` Kees Cook [this message]
2010-08-02 10:19         ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-08-02 16:36           ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02 17:33             ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-08-03 17:07               ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02 18:08           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-08-02 18:50             ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-08-02 12:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-02 16:59     ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02 18:34       ` David P. Quigley
2010-08-03 17:04         ` Kees Cook
2010-08-02 18:51       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-03 16:50         ` Kees Cook
2010-08-03 21:38           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-03 22:34             ` Kees Cook
2010-08-04  2:07               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-04  2:55                 ` Kees Cook
2010-08-04  3:54             ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-08-04  6:18               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-04  7:00                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-08-04 16:23                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-04 12:21               ` Christian Stroetmann
2010-08-03 21:52           ` Christian Stroetmann

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