Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2012 13:58:18 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.6 |
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:54:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> wrote: > > > > I think the benefits of this being on by default outweigh glitches > > like this. Based on Nick's email, it looks like a directory tree of his > > own creation. > > I agree that *one* report like this doesn't necessarily mean that we > need to turn it off, if Nick is happy to just fix up his script and > it's all local. > > However, I suspect we'll see more. And once that happens, we're not > going to keep a default that breaks peoples old scripts, and we're > going to have to rely on distributions (or users) explicitly setting > it. > > Compatibility is just too important.
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.
-Kees
-- Kees Cook @outflux.net
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