Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:57:46 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36 |
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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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