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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:10:09 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:40:57 -0500 (CDT) Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is a test program that can be used to verify the functionality.
>
> I slurped that into the changelog.
>
> Adding a selftest into tools/testing/selftests/ would be appropriate.

Yes please! I'd love to see a general privilege transition testing
area. But starting with just this would be fine. :)

-Kees


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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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