Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752561AbbGKLCu (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jul 2015 07:02:50 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:49864 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751198AbbGKLCt (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jul 2015 07:02:49 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:02:41 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Herrmann Cc: Stephen Smalley , Greg KH , Daniel Mack , Djalal Harouni , lkml , LSM , Paul Osmialowski , Casey Schaufler , Paul Moore Subject: Re: kdbus: credential faking Message-ID: <20150711110241.GA22804@infradead.org> References: <559EBCC0.7040604@tycho.nsa.gov> <559FC7DD.8060507@tycho.nsa.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 15 On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:43:08PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > We need binary compatibility to dbus1. There're millions of > applications and language bindings with dbus1 compiled in, which we > cannot suddenly break. But they can keep using the existing userspace dbus1, and move over to an in-kernel dbus2 after being audited/ported. This whole argumet of we did something stupid in userspace long ago, and now need to move it to kernelspace is not very helpful. -- 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/