From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752172AbdKHLvK (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2017 06:51:10 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59848 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751826AbdKHLvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2017 06:51:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:51:20 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Petr Mladek Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" , Linus Torvalds , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , "Theodore Ts'o" , Kees Cook , Paolo Bonzini , Tycho Andersen , "Roberts, William C" , Tejun Heo , Jordan Glover , Joe Perches , Ian Campbell , Sergey Senozhatsky , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Steven Rostedt , Chris Fries , Dave Weinstein , Daniel Micay , Djalal Harouni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Network Development , David Miller , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, "Paul E. McKenney" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add emailing results Message-ID: <20171108115120.GA2522@kroah.com> References: <1510112259-11572-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> <1510112259-11572-6-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> <20171108101643.GG2652@pathway.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171108101643.GG2652@pathway.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:16:43AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Wed 2017-11-08 14:37:37, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > Developers may not have the time (or inclination) to investigate script > > output. This information is, however, useful. If we add functionality to > > the script to email results for further investigation. > > > > Add --send-report flag to email scan results (to Tobin C. Harding). > > I am not sure that it is wise to make spaming one person > so easy ;-) I agree, I would strongly discourage this, as you will end up getting reports from really old kernels for the next 20+ years. We have seen that happen for every time we have added a "report this to foo@baz" in a kernel log message. If you _really_ want to do this, at least point it at a mailing list. thanks, greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add emailing results Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:51:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20171108115120.GA2522@kroah.com> References: <1510112259-11572-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> <1510112259-11572-6-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> <20171108101643.GG2652@pathway.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" , Linus Torvalds , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Theodore Ts'o , Kees Cook , Paolo Bonzini , Tycho Andersen , "Roberts, William C" , Tejun Heo , Jordan Glover , Joe Perches , Ian Campbell , Sergey Senozhatsky , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Steven Rostedt , Chris Fries , Dave Weinstein , Daniel Micay , Djalal Harouni Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171108101643.GG2652@pathway.suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:16:43AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Wed 2017-11-08 14:37:37, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > Developers may not have the time (or inclination) to investigate script > > output. This information is, however, useful. If we add functionality to > > the script to email results for further investigation. > > > > Add --send-report flag to email scan results (to Tobin C. Harding). > > I am not sure that it is wise to make spaming one person > so easy ;-) I agree, I would strongly discourage this, as you will end up getting reports from really old kernels for the next 20+ years. We have seen that happen for every time we have added a "report this to foo@baz" in a kernel log message. If you _really_ want to do this, at least point it at a mailing list. thanks, greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:51:20 +0100 From: Greg KH Message-ID: <20171108115120.GA2522@kroah.com> References: <1510112259-11572-1-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> <1510112259-11572-6-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc> <20171108101643.GG2652@pathway.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171108101643.GG2652@pathway.suse.cz> Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 5/7] scripts/leaking_addresses: add emailing results To: Petr Mladek Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" , Linus Torvalds , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Theodore Ts'o , Kees Cook , Paolo Bonzini , Tycho Andersen , "Roberts, William C" , Tejun Heo , Jordan Glover , Joe Perches , Ian Campbell , Sergey Senozhatsky , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Steven Rostedt , Chris Fries , Dave Weinstein , Daniel Micay , Djalal Harouni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Network Development , David Miller , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, "Paul E. McKenney" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra List-ID: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:16:43AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > On Wed 2017-11-08 14:37:37, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > Developers may not have the time (or inclination) to investigate script > > output. This information is, however, useful. If we add functionality to > > the script to email results for further investigation. > > > > Add --send-report flag to email scan results (to Tobin C. Harding). > > I am not sure that it is wise to make spaming one person > so easy ;-) I agree, I would strongly discourage this, as you will end up getting reports from really old kernels for the next 20+ years. We have seen that happen for every time we have added a "report this to foo@baz" in a kernel log message. If you _really_ want to do this, at least point it at a mailing list. thanks, greg k-h