linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20150710180038.GF17109@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:00:38 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:39:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But things like strace and auditing etc has probably never worked in
> the first place.
> 
> So yeah, I can well imagine that vm86 isn't universally useful. And
> maybe it's been effectively broken in halfway modern distributions due
> to their insane use of auditing - which is wonderful, because it's
> just a stronger argument for disabling it by default.

ITYM "both"...
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