Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: add syscall to load module from fd

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Why?  Not only have you had these patches sitting for a while, way
>> before you had the kernel module patches, they've been acked/signed off
>> by Kees, Serge, Eric, and myself.  All security subtree maintainers.
>> The module patches could have easily been built on top of Kees' small
>> patches.  I am really disappointed!
>
> Me too.
>
> Linus' merge window opened on Monday 1-10-2012.  One week before that
> was Monday 24-09-2012, which is the nominal close of my merge window.
>
> The patches were sent on 21-09 (Friday for you, the weekend my time).
>
> If I had nothing else to do on Monday, I would have applied it, but we
> spent the week trying to get the module signing patches into shape :(
>
> If I take them now, they need to go through linux-next.  That won't
> happen until Monday.  I want two days in linux-next, so that people who
> test linux-next get a chance to find issues, so that's Wednesday before
> I send to Linus, which is getting very late into the merge window.
>
> And keep adding two days for every trivial issue which is found :(
>
> It's in my modules-wip branch for 3.8.

Cool; better than not in at all. :) Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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