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SubjectRe: checklist (Re: 2.6.17-rc2-mm1)
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 ;-)

M.
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