linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM

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Message-ID: <20140905231821.GD35667@core.coreip.homeip.net>
Date:	Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:18:22 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 3/6] kthread: warn on kill signal if not OOM

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:05:30PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 9/5/2014 3:52 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 03:45:08PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>On 9/5/2014 3:29 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >>>Hello, Dmitry.
> >>>
> >>>On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:10:03AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >>>>I do not agree that it is actually user-visible change: generally speaking you
> >>>>do not really know if device is there or not. They come and go. Like I said,
> >>>>consider all permutations, with hot-pluggable buses, deferred probing, etc,
> >>>
> >>>It is for storage devices which always have guaranteed synchronous
> >>>probing on module load and well-defined probing order.  Sure, modern
> >>>setups are a lot more dynamic but I'm quite certain that there are
> >>>setups in the wild which depend on storage driver loading being
> >>>synchronous.  We can't simply declare one day that such behavior is
> >>>broken and break, most likely, their boots.
> >>
> >>we even depend on this in the mount-by-label cases
> >>
> >>many setups assume that the internal storage prevails over the USB stick in the case of conflicts.
> >>it's a security issue; you don't want the built in secure bootloader that has a kernel root argument
> >>by label/uuid.
> >>the security there tends to assume that built-in wins over USB
> >
> >Ahem... and they sure it works reliably with large storage arrays? With
> >SCSI doing probing asynchronously already?
> 
> you tend to trust your large storage array
> you tend to not trust the walk up USB stick.

If you allow physical access it does not matter really.

-- 
Dmitry
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