linux-kernel - Re: [PATHC v2 0/9] ima: carry the measurement list across kexec

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Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:21:29 -0300
From:   Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-ima-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATHC v2 0/9] ima: carry the measurement list across kexec

Am Donnerstag, 29 September 2016, 16:43:08 schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
> Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> > Hello Eric,
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, 20 September 2016, 11:07:29 schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
> >> A semi-generic concept called a hand-over buffer seems to be a
> >> construction of infrustructure for no actual reason that will just
> >> result in confusion.  There are lots of things that are handed over,
> >> the
> >> flattend device tree, ramdisks, bootparams on x86, etc, etc.  ima is
> >> not
> >> special in this execpt for being perhaps the first addition that we are
> >> going to want the option of including on most architectures.
> > 
> > Ok, I understand. I decided to implement a generic concept because I
> > thought that proposing a feature that is more useful than what I need
> > it for would increase its chance of being accepted. It's interesting to
> > see that it had the opposite effect.
> 
> Yes.  In this case it was not clear that anyone else could use it, and
> being less generic you can tweak the needs of the code to ima without
> anyone having to worry about it.
> 
> So thank you very much for making the code more specific to the
> circumstances.

Thank you very much for your feedback and your reviews!

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Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center