Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754855Ab2JCVAj (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:00:39 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:54088 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754342Ab2JCVAi (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:00:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 22:05:25 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Theodore Ts'o" , Nick Bowler , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.6 Message-ID: <20121003220525.780cf3f2@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121003205818.GB9092@outflux.net> References: <20121003194614.GA2893@elliptictech.com> <20121003200515.GZ9092@outflux.net> <20121003204141.GB6026@thunk.org> <20121003204919.GA9092@outflux.net> <20121003205818.GB9092@outflux.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 584 Lines: 12 > If this happens, I _really_ want to bring back the CONFIG options I had in > an earlier version of this patch. I want to be able to declare the default > at build time, and not leave a system vulnerable from boot until sysctls > get set. If your early boot code trusts a random writeable user directory I think you have other problems. -- 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/