Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:16:56 -0500 | From | Jason Wessel <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 3.16-rc4 0/8] kdb: Allow selective reduction in capabilities |
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On 07/11/2014 06:33 AM, Daniel Thompson wrote: > This patchset implements restricted modes for the KDB debugger. It is a > continuation of previous work of Anton Vorontsov. There are no > outstanding review comments for this patchset. > > It provides a means for the root user to choose the set of kdb commands > that are available on the kdb console. It is implemented similarly to > the existing code to mask the available magic SysRq commands with modes > for disable-all (0), enable-all(1) and a bitmask to enable/disable > groups of functionality. > > The implementation of the mask check includes a feature to allow a > command to change which group it belongs to based on whether or not the > command has arguments (for example, go without arguments is a very safe > command whilst go with an argument allows arbitrary changes to the > program counter). > > There are a few patches, some are just cleanups, some are churn-ish > cleanups, but inevitable. And the rest implements the mode -- after all > the preparations, everything is pretty straightforward.
I plan to take one more walk through the code and aim to get this merged for the upcoming merge window. :-)
Cheers, Jason.
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