From: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:36:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4153280.6zxFApgOmi@merkaba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180426061108.GB4977@amd>
Pavel Machek - 26.04.18, 08:11:
> On Wed 2018-04-25 08:46:02, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Recently ncpfs got moved to staging. Also recently, we had some
> > fuzzer developers report bugs in hfs, which they deem a security
> > hole because Ubuntu attempts to automount an inserted USB device as
> > hfs.
>
> We promise "no-regressions" for code in main repository, no such
> promise for staging. We have quite a lot of code without maintainer.
>
> Moving code to staging means it will get broken -- staging was not
> designed for this. I believe moving anything there is bad idea.
>
> Staging is for ugly code, not for code that needs new maintainter.
Good point.
Moving things in and out to some "unmaintained" directory… I am not sure
about that either. I tend to think that moving code around does not
solve the underlying issue.
Which, according to what I got from Matthew, was that distributors
enable just about every filesystem they can enable which lead to hfs
being used for automounting an USB stick formatted with it.
In the end what may be beneficial would be hinting distributors and
people who compile their own kernels at what features are considered
stable, secure and well tested and what features are not, but how to
determine that? The hint could be some kernel option flag that would be
displayed by make *config. But then it probably needs also a
justification or at least a link to more information.
Actually did ever someone audit the whole kernel source?
Thanks,
--
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-26 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 15:46 Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-25 15:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25 20:30 ` David Sterba
2018-04-26 2:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-26 10:28 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 10:45 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-04-26 10:59 ` David Sterba
2018-04-26 11:06 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 0:59 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 7:40 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 20:46 ` Al Viro
2018-05-06 20:49 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 21:32 ` Al Viro
2018-05-07 2:15 ` Al Viro
2018-05-07 2:40 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07 7:08 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-07 20:50 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-05-07 20:56 ` Ingo Jürgensmann
2018-05-07 20:58 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 8:40 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 10:12 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 11:00 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-26 11:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-26 23:56 ` Finn Thain
2018-04-27 1:43 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? jdow
2018-04-27 1:26 ` jdow
2018-05-06 8:52 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-06 10:10 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-05-07 4:54 ` jdow
2018-04-27 2:11 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Michael Schmitz
2018-06-24 9:06 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-24 11:33 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? jdow
2018-06-24 11:40 ` jdow
2018-06-26 2:23 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26 5:17 ` jdow
2018-06-26 8:12 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-26 9:46 ` jdow
2018-06-26 8:31 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26 9:45 ` jdow
2018-06-27 1:07 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-27 6:24 ` jdow
2018-06-27 8:03 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 2:57 ` jdow
2018-06-28 7:40 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-27 9:00 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? Michael Schmitz
2018-06-28 3:44 ` jdow
2018-06-28 5:43 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-28 6:39 ` jdow
2018-06-28 8:16 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 10:00 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB jdow
2018-06-28 11:30 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 11:38 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 12:31 ` jdow
2018-06-28 8:07 ` Amiga RDB partition support for disks >= 2 TB (was: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging?) Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-27 7:57 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-28 2:56 ` jdow
2018-06-26 8:02 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-26 8:40 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-06-26 9:31 ` jdow
2018-06-25 7:53 ` moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging) Michael Schmitz
2018-06-25 8:26 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-06-25 8:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-27 8:01 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-04-26 4:58 ` Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging Nikolay Borisov
2018-04-26 5:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-04-26 6:11 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-26 10:36 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2018-05-03 9:18 ` Pavel Machek
2018-04-27 1:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-04-29 12:07 ` Greg KH
2018-04-29 20:07 ` Ondrej Zary
2018-04-29 23:37 ` Greg KH
2018-05-01 10:14 ` Pavel Machek
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