From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762869AbYCCR7l (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:59:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758248AbYCCR7O (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:59:14 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45999 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757064AbYCCR7M (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:59:12 -0500 Message-ID: <47CC3C49.1020105@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:58:33 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Pavel Machek , "Klaus S. Madsen" , Suspend-devel list , LKML , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.25-rc3: s2ram segfaults before suspending References: <20080228192404.GH17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C70C01.4020605@zytor.com> <20080228194920.GJ17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C739A6.5020608@zytor.com> <20080229070028.GK17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C873AA.6040305@zytor.com> <20080229212654.GL27212@elte.hu> <20080301094525.GQ17932@hjernemadsen.org> <20080303121735.GE28369@elf.ucw.cz> <47CC310B.8000305@zytor.com> <20080303175328.GC25496@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080303175328.GC25496@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > > if s2ram worked before, and breaks with v2.6.25 then it's a regression. > It doesnt really matter that this segfault is the right thing to do ... > I'm sorry, I have to disagree with this one, simply because it's a security model violation. We can't just say "well, app X does this even though it's forbidden, well, let's just put in a security hole for it." -hpa