From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 19 22: 5:19 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125C837B92F; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF7D13C1; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id WAA06337; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39768878.3D899AC@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:04:56 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, security-officer@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux linux_dummy.c linux_misc.c References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > Do you feel comfortable that this puts neither the kernel nor privileged > userland applications at risk? I.e., do we precisely emulate their > semantics and avoid introducing new security problems? No. > If the answer to either of these questions is no, I'd like to see this > backed out before the release. If there's a shift in how we treat Linuxulator security issues, I'd like it to be discussed first. If any of the security officers decides after looking at the code that the implementation is too dangerous, I'll back it out. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message