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SubjectRe: Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 04:41:08PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Well, at least I'll have something for my summit presentation again.
> >
> > On the other hand, it's rather hard for me to defend against a private NAK.
>
> It's the same nak as before -- I concluded there was consensus on the
> lists, but was wrong.
>
> > James, will it stay in security-testing for .37 hopefully?
>
> Not with this approach, I'd imagine.

I'm sorry to appear dense, but the most recent NAK from Christoph was
here[1], which was for a patch to Yama that is not in security-testing
yet. Prior to that, all I could find was this[2] which explicitly asked
me to put stuff in a special LSM.

I really would like to see it in mainline, but next steps are not clear.

-Kees

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/30/31
[2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/1/78

--
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team


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