From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
mchehab@kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patchwork@lists.ozlabs.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFE: use patchwork to submit a patch
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:18:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgnvihyu.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191014122637.GB5564@mit.edu>
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:42:36PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> It should be detectable, though, right?
>>
>> Say you have two independently administered patchwork instances (or even
>> better, two different software packages entirely) that both subscribe to
>> the mailing lists, and compare patch content with each other. They
>> should at least be able to detect mismatches. Especially if you add a
>> sanity check before discarding duplicate message-ids.
>
> They don't even need to compare against each other; patchwork is about
> to add a feature where you can look up patches via message-id, right?
> That means it's easy enough to write a program which fetches patches
> from patchwork, and compares it to the patches found in
> lore.kernel.org. If they don't match, then an alarm can be sounded.
Yeah. I guess what is needed is to go from "can be" to "will be" (as
Daniel pointed out in his simultaneous reply).
>> This way you'd need to compromise multiple machines to achieve the kind
>> of compromise you're worried about. And you can add more independent
>> machines until you're satisfied that the risk is low enough :)
>
> Yep, exactly. This is basically the theory behind Certificate
> Transparency[1], applied to patches.
Indeed I'm familiar with certificate transparency, so this was certainly
not an idea conceived in a vacuum ;)
-Toke
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2019-10-10 14:41 RFE: use patchwork to submit a patch Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-10 18:07 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-10-10 19:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-10 19:53 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-10 20:05 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-10 20:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-10-10 20:36 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-11 18:05 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-10-10 20:20 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-10-10 21:38 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-10 22:05 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-11 8:57 ` Greg KH
2019-10-11 17:20 ` Shuah Khan
2019-10-11 17:37 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-10-11 18:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-11 18:32 ` David Miller
2019-10-11 18:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-11 18:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-10-11 18:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-10-11 19:02 ` Drew DeVault
2019-10-11 19:11 ` David Miller
2019-10-11 21:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-10-11 21:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-11 22:54 ` Dave Airlie
2019-10-11 23:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-12 0:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-10-12 0:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-13 23:38 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-14 10:42 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-10-14 12:26 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-14 13:18 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2019-10-14 13:41 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-10-14 13:53 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-14 14:28 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2019-10-14 15:25 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-14 12:27 ` Daniel Axtens
2019-10-14 13:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-14 14:58 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-14 15:12 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-15 4:49 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-15 16:30 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-14 15:17 ` Greg KH
2019-10-14 15:27 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-15 4:41 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-15 16:07 ` Greg KH
2019-10-14 20:56 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-15 4:39 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-15 12:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-15 13:35 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-15 14:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-15 15:21 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-15 16:37 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-15 16:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-21 15:39 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-24 13:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-24 13:33 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-24 13:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-24 14:12 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-15 8:57 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-15 9:11 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-10-15 16:24 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-15 16:27 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-21 11:16 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-11-08 9:44 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-11-08 14:02 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-08 14:11 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-11-08 14:12 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-11-08 14:17 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-11-08 14:25 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-11-09 4:31 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-11 9:35 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2019-11-11 12:08 ` Mark Brown
2019-11-11 16:17 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-11 20:38 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-11-08 14:17 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-11 20:02 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-11 21:23 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-11 21:35 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-12 7:19 ` Greg KH
2019-10-14 11:31 ` Mark Brown
2019-10-15 16:11 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-13 23:39 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-14 7:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-14 22:18 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-15 15:34 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-14 15:33 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-15 15:40 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-15 16:32 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-15 16:34 ` Drew DeVault
2019-10-15 16:44 ` Laurent Pinchart
2019-10-15 17:07 ` Drew DeVault
2019-10-15 17:24 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-11 22:57 ` Dave Airlie
2019-10-12 7:31 ` Greg KH
2019-10-12 13:16 ` Stephen Finucane
2019-10-12 16:13 ` Stephen Finucane
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