From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: add config options to enable link restrictions
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:22:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <508AFF17.6050705@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKP5XxSkz48PsqbrpBZMU=wjsmq+HExZGKMOeHrB9PHrg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/26/2012 01:23 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> Every distro will ship with this enabled (except perhaps Damn
> Vulnerable Linux), so why make it harder?
>
So please remind me why can't it be on by default in code.
And the normal sysctl to turn it off for these who want to
experiment with "filesystem corruption".
So the basic premise is that you must not have any
filesystem corruption at the parts used by boot up until
the init portion that turns "filesystem corruption" on
> -Kees
>
Cheers
Boaz
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-26 18:50 [PATCH] VFS: add config options to enable link restrictions Kees Cook
2012-10-26 19:08 ` Al Viro
2012-10-26 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-26 19:46 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-26 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-26 20:23 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-26 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-26 21:41 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-26 21:22 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
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