Re: [PATCH] x86-64, vsyscalls: Rename UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to COMPAT_VSYSCALLS

[pageexec]

On 7 Jun 2011 at 12:05, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> * pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > you called this feature "borderline security FUD" but have yet to 
> > prove it.
> 
> No, i did not claim that this feature is "borderline security FUD", 
> at all.

so can i take it as your concession that the vsyscall feature is indeed
a security problem and it's being randomized/(re)moved for security reasons?

in that case the naming of this feature is correct and you have no reason
to call it "borderline security FUD". so make up your mind!

> That the *NAMING* is borderline security FUD. (I already applied the 
> patches before i wrote that mail, see the commit notifications on 
> lkml.)

how can the name be "borderline security FUD" but what the name refers
to not be that? you see, we name things for a reason, mostly because
we think the name has something to do with the thing it names, duh?

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