From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:33:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190416083306.5646a687@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5j+KPVRcOJ3Ue9ZQF93GyaDhvCnFCvJ_C3WKCx2=SNdDyg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:50:10 -0500
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 9:41 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > I agree with this assessment. We shouldn't use config.gz as precedence
> > for this solution. config.gz should have been in debugfs to begin with,
> > but I don't believe debugfs was around when config.gz was introduced.
> > (Don't have time to look into the history of the two).
>
> I don't agree with this: /proc/config.gz is used by a lot of tools
> that do sanity-check of running systems. This isn't _debugging_...
> it's verifying correct kernel builds. It's a fancy version of checking
> /proc/version.
>
Then we should perhaps make a new file system call tarballs ;-)
/sys/kernel/tarballs/
and place everything there. That way it removes it from /proc (which is
the worse place for that) and also makes it something other than debug.
That's what I did for tracefs.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-16 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-20 16:31 [PATCH v5 1/3] Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-20 16:31 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] Add selftests for module build using in-kernel headers Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-20 16:31 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] init/config: Do not select BUILD_BIN2C for IKCONFIG Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-20 18:31 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier Andrew Morton
2019-03-20 19:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-08 16:29 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-08 16:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-08 16:53 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-08 20:36 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-10 15:07 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-10 15:50 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-10 16:34 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-10 17:33 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-10 17:35 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-11 3:15 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-04-11 16:30 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-14 19:38 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-15 9:41 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-15 13:52 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-15 14:05 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-15 14:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-16 3:50 ` Kees Cook
2019-04-16 12:33 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2019-04-16 12:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-16 13:04 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-16 13:32 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-04-16 13:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-16 14:21 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-16 14:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-16 14:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-16 16:42 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-16 16:46 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-04-16 16:57 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-16 17:22 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-16 17:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-04-16 16:47 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-10 19:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-04-12 16:16 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-12 17:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-04-08 20:52 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-04-10 15:15 ` Olof Johansson
2019-04-10 15:44 ` Daniel Colascione
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