Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755469AbcDKX7v (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:59:51 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:43828 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755077AbcDKX7u (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:59:50 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andy Lutomirski , security@debian.org, security@kernel.org, Al Viro , "security\@ubuntu.com \>\> security" , Peter Hurley , Serge Hallyn , Willy Tarreau , Aurelien Jarno , One Thousand Gnomes , Jann Horn , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jiri Slaby , Florian Weimer , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <878u0s3orx.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <1459819769-30387-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <87twjcorwg.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20160409140909.42315e6d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <83FE8CD2-C0A2-4ADB-AEBD-8DD89AD4F88A@zytor.com> <87bn5ij0x1.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <78205895-E11D-417F-91DC-4BCA0B61A122@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:49:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat, 9 Apr 2016 18:27:36 -0700") Message-ID: <87ziszd7uv.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1+59MXLuwkKwU2zPLXaXnspd2NniMYjDNg= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.3.249.252 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.7 XMSubLong Long Subject * 1.5 XMNoVowels Alpha-numberic number with no vowels * 0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP Message was received from an IP address * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: No description available. * 0.8 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% * [score: 0.5000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa07 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa07 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: **;Linus Torvalds X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Timing: total 267 ms - load_scoreonly_sql: 0.03 (0.0%), signal_user_changed: 3.9 (1.5%), b_tie_ro: 2.8 (1.0%), parse: 0.98 (0.4%), extract_message_metadata: 18 (6.9%), get_uri_detail_list: 0.99 (0.4%), tests_pri_-1000: 6 (2.4%), tests_pri_-950: 1.20 (0.5%), tests_pri_-900: 1.02 (0.4%), tests_pri_-400: 19 (7.0%), check_bayes: 18 (6.6%), b_tokenize: 6 (2.1%), b_tok_get_all: 6 (2.2%), b_comp_prob: 1.55 (0.6%), b_tok_touch_all: 2.6 (1.0%), b_finish: 0.64 (0.2%), tests_pri_0: 172 (64.5%), check_dkim_signature: 0.44 (0.2%), check_dkim_adsp: 4.7 (1.7%), tests_pri_500: 41 (15.3%), poll_dns_idle: 34 (12.8%), rewrite_mail: 0.00 (0.0%) Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] devpts: Teach /dev/ptmx to find the associated devpts via path lookup X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:00:52 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 499 Lines: 18 Linus Torvalds writes: > On Apr 9, 2016 5:45 PM, "Andy Lutomirski" wrote: >> >> >> What we *do* want to do, though, is to prevent the following: > > I don't see the point. Why do you bring up this insane scenario that > nobody can possibly care about? > > So you actually have any reason to believe somebody does that? > > I already asked about that earlier, and the silence was deafening. I replied earlier. Did you not see my reply? Eric