Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261805AbVAMWdD (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:33:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261715AbVAMWVt (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:21:49 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:47845 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261785AbVAMWUq (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:20:46 -0500 Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , grendel@caudium.net, Chris Wright , Marcelo Tosatti , Greg KH , akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20050112094807.K24171@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20050112185133.GA10687@kroah.com> <20050112161227.GF32024@logos.cnet> <20050112174203.GA691@logos.cnet> <1105627541.4624.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050113194246.GC24970@beowulf.thanes.org> <20050113115004.Z24171@build.pdx.osdl.net> <20050113202905.GD24970@beowulf.thanes.org> <1105645267.4644.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1105649837.6031.54.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1105650940.5193.141.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:15:41 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 741 Lines: 16 On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 21:22, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Are there advantages and upsides? Yes. Are there disadvantages? > Indubitably. And anybody who disregards the disadvantages as "inevitable" > is not really interested in fixing the game. So the next time I find a remote root hole I should post an exploit example targetting kernel.org to the linux-kernel list ? Now where are you going to publish the fix - bk is down, kernel.org is down ... Disclosre isn't quite as simple as you'd like. - 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/