Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751382Ab2JEHMc (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 03:12:32 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:64594 "EHLO mail-ie0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767Ab2JEHMa (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 03:12:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <878vbl1ss0.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> References: <1348179300-11653-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> <87obki23uv.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <1349355032.2496.11.camel@falcor> <878vbl1ss0.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 00:12:29 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: X4CPS9AWn0Mko301eBJ7wk6N3WA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd From: Kees Cook To: Rusty Russell Cc: Mimi Zohar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Serge Hallyn , Arnd Bergmann , James Morris , Al Viro , Eric Paris , Jiri Kosina , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1567 Lines: 39 On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: > Mimi Zohar writes: >> Why? Not only have you had these patches sitting for a while, way >> before you had the kernel module patches, they've been acked/signed off >> by Kees, Serge, Eric, and myself. All security subtree maintainers. >> The module patches could have easily been built on top of Kees' small >> patches. I am really disappointed! > > Me too. > > Linus' merge window opened on Monday 1-10-2012. One week before that > was Monday 24-09-2012, which is the nominal close of my merge window. > > The patches were sent on 21-09 (Friday for you, the weekend my time). > > If I had nothing else to do on Monday, I would have applied it, but we > spent the week trying to get the module signing patches into shape :( > > If I take them now, they need to go through linux-next. That won't > happen until Monday. I want two days in linux-next, so that people who > test linux-next get a chance to find issues, so that's Wednesday before > I send to Linus, which is getting very late into the merge window. > > And keep adding two days for every trivial issue which is found :( > > It's in my modules-wip branch for 3.8. Cool; better than not in at all. :) Thanks! -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- 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/