> -----Original Message----- > From: Sergey Senozhatsky [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 6:38 PM > To: Greg KH <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; Petr Mladek <[email protected]>; > Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>; linux- > [email protected]; Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>; Will > Deacon <[email protected]>; Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>; > Roberts, William C <[email protected]>; Chris Fries > <[email protected]>; Dave Weinstein <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [RFC 00/06] printk: add more new kernel pointer filter options. > > Hello Greg, > > On (05/05/17 21:06), Greg KH wrote: > > Here's a short patch series from Chris Fries and Dave Weinstein that > > implement some new restrictions when printing out kernel pointers, as > > well as the ability to whitelist kernel pointers where needed. > > > > These patches are based on work from William Roberts, and also is > > inspired by grsecurity's %pP to specifically whitelist a kernel > > pointer, where it is always needed, like the last patch in the series > > shows, in the UIO drivers (UIO requires that you know the address, > > it's a hardware address, nothing wrong with seeing that...) > > > > I haven't done much to this patch series, only forward porting it from > > an older kernel release (4.4) and a few minor tweaks. It applies > > cleanly on top of 4.11 as well as Linus's current development tree > > (10502 patches into the 4.12-rc1 merge window). I'm posting it now > > for comments if anyone sees anything wrong with this approach > > overall, I don't see anything wrong. > > > or thinks the things that are being whitelisted should not be? > > can't say for sure, sorry. > > -ss
I almost missed this, none of the mail was delivered to my inbox... Anyways, I am glad to see this revived and I don't have any Comments besides thanks.
