Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:50:10 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier |
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 9:41 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > I agree with this assessment. We shouldn't use config.gz as precedence > for this solution. config.gz should have been in debugfs to begin with, > but I don't believe debugfs was around when config.gz was introduced. > (Don't have time to look into the history of the two).
I don't agree with this: /proc/config.gz is used by a lot of tools that do sanity-check of running systems. This isn't _debugging_... it's verifying correct kernel builds. It's a fancy version of checking /proc/version.
-- Kees Cook
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