From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261885AbVASUpe (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:45:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261886AbVASUpe (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:45:34 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:47884 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261885AbVASUpT (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:45:19 -0500 Message-Id: <200501192044.j0JKiwJ2005994@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: John Richard Moser , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, Greg KH , chrisw@osdl.org, Alan Cox , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: thoughts on kernel security issues In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:53:51 +0100." <1106164432.6310.195.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20050112205350.GM24518@redhat.com> <20050112182838.2aa7eec2.akpm@osdl.org> <20050113033542.GC1212@redhat.com> <20050113082320.GB18685@infradead.org> <1105635662.6031.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <41E6BE6B.6050400@comcast.net> <20050119103020.GA4417@elte.hu> <41EE96E7.3000004@comcast.net> <1106157152.6310.171.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <41EEABEF.5000503@comcast.net> <200501191947.j0JJlf3j024206@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1106164432.6310.195.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1106167498_1885P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:44:58 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1106167498_1885P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:53:51 +0100, Arjan van de Ven said: > > Now look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/arjan/execshield/ . > > 4 separate hunks, the biggest is under 7K. Other chunks of similar size > > for non-exec stack and NX support are already merged. > > > > And why were they merged? Because they showed up in 4-8K chunks. > > > note to readers: I'm still not happy about the split up and want to > split this up even further in smaller pieces; the split up there is only > a first order split. Right - the point is that even an idiot like me can get my head wrapped around that biggest 7K chunk and figure out what's going on. On the other hand, even the Alan Cox gnome-cluster isn't able to digest a 280K patch... --==_Exmh_1106167498_1885P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFB7sbKcC3lWbTT17ARAhfDAKCC7+/enOdRUmsQi3sh/L9y7v+OGwCgkaWv XOIghQrCAEYVZQvG8s932rE= =kMpQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1106167498_1885P--