linux-kernel - Re: Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36

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Message-ID: <20100802065746.GS3948@outflux.net>
Date:	Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:57:46 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Tim Gardner <timg@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 04:41:08PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Well, at least I'll have something for my summit presentation again.
> > 
> > On the other hand, it's rather hard for me to defend against a private NAK.
> 
> It's the same nak as before -- I concluded there was consensus on the 
> lists, but was wrong.
> 
> > James, will it stay in security-testing for .37 hopefully?
> 
> Not with this approach, I'd imagine.

I'm sorry to appear dense, but the most recent NAK from Christoph was
here[1], which was for a patch to Yama that is not in security-testing
yet. Prior to that, all I could find was this[2] which explicitly asked
me to put stuff in a special LSM.

I really would like to see it in mainline, but next steps are not clear.

-Kees

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/30/31
[2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/1/78

-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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