Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:25:38 -0700 | | From | Kees Cook <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 05/13] seccomp_filter: Document what seccomp_filter is and how it works. |
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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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