From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
ksummit-2011-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com,
Chris Evans <scarybeasts@gmail.com>,
djm@mindrot.org, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
tglx@linutronix.de, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
segoon@openwall.com
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2011-discuss] [PATCH v9 05/13] seccomp_filter: Document what seccomp_filter is and how it works.
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:09:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110704160941.GA18303@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110701202538.GN32221@outflux.net>
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:04:08PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 11:43 -0500, Will Drewry wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to be able to move along security for the platform today and
> > > not in two years, but if my only chance of any form of this being
> > > ACK'd is to write it such that it shares code with perf and has a
> > > shiny new ABI, then I'll queue up the work for when I can start trying
> > > to tackle it.
> >
> > As this seems to be dragging on, and does not look to be solved by
> > October, I would like to propose this topic for the Kernel Summit in
> > Prague. I believe all parties involved may be there, and if not, I will
> > push hard to get them there.
> >
> > Email is not always the best median for discussions. Face to face can
> > usually solve things much quicker.
>
> How about we put it in as-is and mark it experimental, and then folks
> can discuss improvements to it in Oct after all the API users have had
> a chance to play with it? Four months seems like a needless delay to me.
> I respect the objections, but it doesn't seem to balance against the
> demonstrated need for this feature when faced with a viable working patch
> series.
We can't add something and then remove it if userspace programs are
depending on it, sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-24 0:36 [PATCH v9 01/13] tracing: split out filter initialization and clean up uses Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 02/13] tracing: split out syscall_trace_enter construction Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 03/13] seccomp_filter: new mode with configurable syscall filters Will Drewry
2011-06-24 7:30 ` Damien Miller
2011-06-24 20:20 ` Kees Cook
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 04/13] seccomp_filter: add process state reporting Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 05/13] seccomp_filter: Document what seccomp_filter is and how it works Will Drewry
2011-06-24 7:24 ` Chris Evans
[not found] ` <BANLkTimtYUyXbZjWhjK61B_1WBXE4MoAeA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-26 23:20 ` James Morris
2011-06-29 19:13 ` Will Drewry
2011-06-30 1:30 ` James Morris
2011-07-01 11:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 12:56 ` Will Drewry
2011-07-01 13:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 15:46 ` Will Drewry
2011-07-01 16:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 16:43 ` Will Drewry
2011-07-01 18:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-07-01 18:09 ` Will Drewry
2011-07-01 18:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-07-04 2:19 ` James Morris
2011-07-05 12:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-07-05 23:46 ` James Morris
2011-07-06 0:37 ` [Ksummit-2011-discuss] " Ted Ts'o
2011-07-05 23:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-07-05 2:54 ` [Ksummit-2011-discuss] " Eugene Teo
2011-07-01 20:25 ` Kees Cook
2011-07-04 16:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-07-01 21:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 21:34 ` Will Drewry
2011-07-05 9:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-06 18:24 ` Will Drewry
2011-07-05 15:26 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 06/13] x86: add HAVE_SECCOMP_FILTER and seccomp_execve Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 07/13] arm: select HAVE_SECCOMP_FILTER Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 08/13] microblaze: select HAVE_SECCOMP_FILTER and provide seccomp_execve Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 09/13] mips: " Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 10/13] s390: " Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 11/13] powerpc: " Will Drewry
2011-08-30 5:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-11-28 0:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-11-28 1:45 ` Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 12/13] sparc: " Will Drewry
2011-06-24 0:36 ` [PATCH v9 13/13] sh: select HAVE_SECCOMP_FILTER Will Drewry
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