Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 May 2006 14:35:05 -0700 | From | Martin Bligh <> | Subject | Re: checklist (Re: 2.6.17-rc2-mm1) |
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Valerie Henson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:03:23PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > >>Martin Bligh wrote: >> >>>>[...] >>> >>>I don't want to boot it, as that gets into security nightmares, but I >>>should be able to provide something that does static testing. >> >>Actually, booting might not be that bad using a virtual machine with qemu. > > > Honestly, the security nightmare begins with the compile. A patch to > the build system can result in arbitrarily insecure commands being run > during the compile - way easier than doing something that affects the > compiled kernel. A machine doing automatic compiles of untrusted > patches should be viewed as completely sacrificial from the beginning.
True - good point ... but it's easier to chroot jail. And I'm lazy ;-) If anyone wants to make autotest (http://test.kernel.org/autotest) support some sort of virtual boot via creating a UML instance or something, that'd be great. But I won't hold my breath ;-)
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