On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:03:23PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
Martin Bligh wrote:
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I don't want to boot it, as that gets into security nightmares, but I should be able to provide something that does static testing.
Actually, booting might not be that bad using a virtual machine with qemu.
Honestly, the security nightmare begins with the compile. A patch to
the build system can result in arbitrarily insecure commands being run
during the compile - way easier than doing something that affects the
compiled kernel. A machine doing automatic compiles of untrusted
patches should be viewed as completely sacrificial from the beginning.