Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:53:25 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: thoughts on kernel security issues |
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > Details, please? > > You did it this way: > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@4115cba3UCrZo9SnkQp0apTO3SghJQ
Oh, that's a separate issue. We want to have multiple levels of security.
We not only try to make sure that there are easy interfaces (but yeah, I don't force people to rewrite - I sadly don't have a cadre of slaves at my beck and call ;p), but it's also always a good idea to have interfaces that are bug-resistant even in the face of people actively not using the better interfaces.
So having good interfaces that are harder to have bugs in does _not_ mean that we still shouldn't have defensive programming practices anyway. The combination of the two means that a bug in one layer hopefully gets caught be the other layer.
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