On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 09:31:55AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > So what I'd love to see is to have a kernel option that re-introduces some > historic root (and other) holes that can be exploited deterministically - > obviously default disabled.
Ick, I don't want to have to support nasty #ifdefs for "CONFIG_TOTALLY_INSECURE" type options in code logic for the next 20+ years, do you? > I'd restrict this to reasonably 'deterministic' holes, and the exploits > themselves > could be somewhere in tools/. (Obviously only where the maintainers agree to > host > the code.) They wouldn't give a root shell, they'd only test whether they > reached > uid0 (or some other elevated privilege). Having exploits in tools/ would be good, I would like to see that, as then we can ensure that we don't ever introduce old problems that we have fixed again in the future. That I have no objection to. thanks, greg k-h
