From: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"'xen-devel@lists.xensource.com'" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:54:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C21F5DC.5050806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19489.62735.769351.371689@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 06/23/2010 01:50 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Michal Novotny writes ("Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks"):
>
>> Why do you think so, Ian? This follows the IDE specifications to
>> disallow read-only IDE disks since the specs doesn't support IDE
>> read-only disks. The only read-only device being supported by IDE specs
>> is the CD-ROM device.
>>
> The administrator should be free to violate the IDE specification if
> the IDE specification conflicts with their security goals.
>
> Ian.
>
Are you saying that it's OK for administrators to violate the IDE specs
and do it the way that is should never be done since this way it's not
working on bare-metal systems ? This is the breach and it shouldn't be
done this way so why to allow it? Shouldn't we care the code complies
with the specifications to have it done the right way?
Michal
--
Michal Novotny<minovotn@redhat.com>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-23 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-21 16:30 [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks Michal Novotny
2010-06-21 18:04 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-22 5:43 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 6:11 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 6:14 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-22 6:17 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 12:56 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 14:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-06-23 11:27 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 20:46 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-23 9:59 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 11:21 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 13:51 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-23 14:14 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-22 14:56 ` Ian Jackson
2010-06-23 11:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-23 11:27 ` Ian Jackson
2010-06-23 11:29 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 11:50 ` Ian Jackson
2010-06-23 11:54 ` Michal Novotny [this message]
2010-06-23 12:04 ` Ian Jackson
2010-06-23 12:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-23 12:20 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 12:20 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 12:12 ` Michal Novotny
2010-06-23 12:33 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-23 15:12 ` George Dunlap
2010-06-23 16:26 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-23 12:35 ` Alan Cox
2010-06-23 12:37 ` Michal Novotny
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