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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:58:18 -0700 From: Kees Cook <kees@...flux.net> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Linux 3.6 On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:54:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Kees Cook <kees@...flux.net> wrote: > > > > I think the benefits of this being on by default outweigh glitches > > like this. Based on Nick's email, it looks like a directory tree of his > > own creation. > > I agree that *one* report like this doesn't necessarily mean that we > need to turn it off, if Nick is happy to just fix up his script and > it's all local. > > However, I suspect we'll see more. And once that happens, we're not > going to keep a default that breaks peoples old scripts, and we're > going to have to rely on distributions (or users) explicitly setting > it. > > Compatibility is just too important. If this happens, I _really_ want to bring back the CONFIG options I had in an earlier version of this patch. I want to be able to declare the default at build time, and not leave a system vulnerable from boot until sysctls get set. -Kees -- Kees Cook @outflux.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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