Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 13:39:01 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>, security@kernel.org, mort@sgi.com,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, fweisbec@gmail.com,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        jason.wessel@windriver.com, tj@kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Security] [PATCH] kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking
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On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 01:25:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> 
> > > Why are you putting words in my mouth?
> > 
> > I'm not putting anything in your mouth Ingo :-)
> 
> To quote you:
> 
>   " you're making a special case of the security bug that you want to hide bugs from
>     user-space by cheating on version. "
> 
> No, i did not say that i want to hide bugs from user-space by cheating on the 
> version. Why are you claiming that i said that? Why are you putting words in my 
> mouth?

I'm not claiming that "you said that", it's my interpretation of what
you're trying to achieve with what you're defending. I'm free to interprete
as I want. Probably it's a very synthetical analysis, but it's my analysis.

Willy

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