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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 05/13] seccomp_filter: Document what seccomp_filter is and how it works.
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:04:08PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 11:43 -0500, Will Drewry wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to be able to move along security for the platform today and
> > not in two years, but if my only chance of any form of this being
> > ACK'd is to write it such that it shares code with perf and has a
> > shiny new ABI, then I'll queue up the work for when I can start trying
> > to tackle it.
>
> As this seems to be dragging on, and does not look to be solved by
> October, I would like to propose this topic for the Kernel Summit in
> Prague. I believe all parties involved may be there, and if not, I will
> push hard to get them there.
>
> Email is not always the best median for discussions. Face to face can
> usually solve things much quicker.

How about we put it in as-is and mark it experimental, and then folks
can discuss improvements to it in Oct after all the API users have had
a chance to play with it? Four months seems like a needless delay to me.
I respect the objections, but it doesn't seem to balance against the
demonstrated need for this feature when faced with a viable working patch
series.

-Kees

--
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team


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