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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 21:50:51 +1100
From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [RFC V2 0/6] add more kernel pointer filter
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:58:50AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 11:06:44AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > Version 2 of Greg's patch series with changes made as suggested by comments to V1.
> > 
> > Applies on top of Linus' current development tree
> > 
> > a8c964eacb21288b2dbfa9d80cee5968a3b8fb21
> > 
> > V1 cover letter:
> > 
> > Here's a short patch series from Chris Fries and Dave Weinstein that
> > implements some new restrictions when printing out kernel pointers, as
> > well as the ability to whitelist kernel pointers where needed.
> > 
> > These patches are based on work from William Roberts, and also are
> > inspired by grsecurity's %pP to specifically whitelist a kernel pointer,
> > where it is always needed, like the last patch in the series shows, in
> > the UIO drivers (UIO requires that you know the address, it's a hardware
> > address, nothing wrong with seeing that...)
> > 
> > I haven't done much to this patch series, only forward porting it from
> > an older kernel release (4.4) and a few minor tweaks. [snip]
> 
> Nice!  Thanks for doing this work, looks great to me.  Care to resend
> the next version as a "real" one (i.e. no RFC)?

First thing tomorrow!

Is correct protocol for me to add your Signed-off-by tag to each patch from this RFC? Or is the
protocol for you to add the tag yourself when the real version is posted? 

I intend splitting one of the patches into two as suggested by Will.


thanks,
Tobin.