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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n')
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:52:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5jKQpya1WEDTeD6i5mZq7eDu8OW4BmHRMscXtmQKeig9-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+5PVA5aaK0HuzcfG_2KOMwqOHrPWmU988t+FbDUj6ffdAeDng@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>> I'd be amenable to switching the default back to y and perhaps adding
>> a sysctl to make the distros more comfortable.  Ingo, Kees, Brian,
>> what do you think?
>
> Can you please leave the default as N, and have a sysctl option to
> enable it instead?  While dosemu might still be in use, it isn't going
> to be the common case at all.  So from a distro perspective, I think
> we'd probably rather have the default match the common case.

Linus will say the default must not break existing userspace...

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-02 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-02  9:37 stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') Stas Sergeev
2015-09-02 14:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-02 15:31   ` Kees Cook
2015-09-02 17:30   ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-02 17:46   ` Josh Boyer
2015-09-02 17:50     ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-02 20:22       ` Josh Boyer
2015-09-02 20:47         ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-02 20:55           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-02 20:59             ` Josh Boyer
2015-09-02 21:12             ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-02 21:40               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-02 21:53                 ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-03 12:11                   ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-03 12:15                     ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-03 15:44                       ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-03 16:34                         ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-03 18:51                           ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-03 21:28                             ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-04 10:09                               ` Chuck Ebbert
2015-09-04 10:46                                 ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-04 12:34                                   ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-04 13:06                                     ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-04 19:51                                       ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-04 21:16                                         ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-04 21:30                                           ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-04 22:46                                             ` Raymond Jennings
2015-09-04 23:18                                               ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-03 22:39                             ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-03 16:57                         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-03 17:19                           ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-03 17:21                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-03 17:34                               ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-03 17:13                         ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-03 12:01               ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-03 12:09                 ` Stas Sergeev
2015-09-02 17:52     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2015-09-02 20:25       ` Josh Boyer
2015-09-02 18:19     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-02 20:26       ` Josh Boyer

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