Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754887Ab1FHIu3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 04:50:29 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:50144 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752429Ab1FHIu0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 04:50:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:50:07 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andi Kleen , Andi Kleen Cc: Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl , Borislav Petkov , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Jan Beulich , richard -rw- weinberger , Mikael Pettersson , Andrew Lutomirski , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] x86-64: Add CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to feature-removal-schedule Message-ID: <20110608085007.GA27314@elte.hu> References: <1660d1687db01852ec58bbf970e22868db367d53.1306851090.git.luto@mit.edu> <20110531183448.GA27166@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 25 * Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > And it's still a bad idea. Especially since there's a much better > > alternative anyways for the "security problem" which has none of > > these drawbacks. > > What's the alternative? Andi, you still have not replied to Andy's, Thomas's and my question regarding your claim: exactly what 'alternative' did you mean here? Do you plan to reply to our questions or will you continue to ignore them forever, keeping your FUD in the air indefinitely? Thanks, Ingo -- 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/