From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270364AbTGNLig (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:38:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270371AbTGNLig (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:38:36 -0400 Received: from genius.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.210]:38366 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270364AbTGNLif (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:38:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:53:13 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: John Bradford Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.0-test1 Message-ID: <20030714115313.GA21773@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , John Bradford , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org References: <200307141150.h6EBoe1P000738@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307141150.h6EBoe1P000738@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:50:40PM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > > Then you'll just have to wait a few months > > Oh well, it just seems strange to be asking people to test > 2.6.0-root-my-box, without making the consequences a bit clearer. >>From http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt ------ 8< 8< 8< 8< ------ Security concerns. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Several security issues solved in 2.4 may not yet be forward ported to 2.5. For this reason 2.5.x kernels should not be tested on untrusted systems. Testing known 2.4 exploits and reporting results is useful. ------ 8< 8< 8< 8< ------ If you don't have the time/energy to trawl linux-kernel, testing the many zillions of `sploits out there to see what works and what doesn't may be more fun. (Although most if not all should be failing, so it may also get boring very quickly). It'd be nice if someone like osdl could add such testing to nightly regression tests. Some of them may even be candidates for LTP perhaps ? Dave