Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933219AbbGJSAz (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:00:55 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:50090 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932608AbbGJSAr (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:00:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:00:38 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andy Lutomirski , "Eric W. Biederman" , Arjan van de Ven , Andy Lutomirski , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov , Kees Cook , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN Message-ID: <20150710180038.GF17109@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <559C8BFE.6050604@linux.intel.com> <87twtc14po.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 686 Lines: 15 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"... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/