From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com>,
"Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
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Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
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Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add emailing results
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:51:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171108115120.GA2522@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171108101643.GG2652@pathway.suse.cz>
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:16:43AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wed 2017-11-08 14:37:37, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > Developers may not have the time (or inclination) to investigate script
> > output. This information is, however, useful. If we add functionality to
> > the script to email results for further investigation.
> >
> > Add --send-report flag to email scan results (to Tobin C. Harding).
>
> I am not sure that it is wise to make spaming one person
> so easy ;-)
I agree, I would strongly discourage this, as you will end up getting
reports from really old kernels for the next 20+ years. We have seen
that happen for every time we have added a "report this to foo@baz" in a
kernel log message.
If you _really_ want to do this, at least point it at a mailing list.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 3:37 [PATCH 0/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add summary report Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 3:37 ` [PATCH 1/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: use tabs not spaces Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 3:37 ` [PATCH 2/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: remove dead code Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 3:37 ` [PATCH 3/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: remove command line options Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 3:37 ` [PATCH 4/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add reporting Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 10:42 ` Petr Mladek
2017-11-09 0:51 ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 3:37 ` [PATCH 5/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add emailing results Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 10:16 ` Petr Mladek
2017-11-08 11:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-11-09 0:58 ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 3:37 ` [PATCH 6/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: fix comment typo Tobin C. Harding
2017-11-08 3:37 ` [PATCH 7/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: don't parse usbmon Tobin C. Harding
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