Re: kdbus: credential faking

2015-07-10 Thread Alex Elsayed
Casey Schaufler wrote: > On 7/10/2015 7:57 AM, Alex Elsayed wrote: >> Stephen Smalley wrote: >> >>> On 07/10/2015 09:43 AM, David Herrmann wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Smalley >>>> wrote

Re: kdbus: credential faking

2015-07-10 Thread Alex Elsayed
Stephen Smalley wrote: > On 07/10/2015 09:43 AM, David Herrmann wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Smalley >> wrote: >>> On 07/09/2015 06:22 PM, David Herrmann wrote: To be clear, faking metadata has one use-case, and one use-case only: dbus1 compatibility

Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

2015-04-17 Thread Alex Elsayed
Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:27 PM, James Bottomley > wrote: >> >> This is why I think kdbus is a bad idea: it solidifies as a linux kernel >> API something which runs counter to granular OS virtualization (and >> something which caused Windows to fall behind Linux

Re: [PATCH 0/3] dm-crypt: Adds support for wiping key when doing suspend/hibernation

2015-04-17 Thread Alex Elsayed
Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16 2015 at 5:23am -0400, > Alex Elsayed wrote: > >> Mike Snitzer wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Apr 09 2015 at 9:28am -0400, >> > Pali Rohár wrote: >> > >> >> On Thursday 09 April 2015 09:12:08 Mike

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-05 Thread Alex Elsayed
Michel Machado wrote: > Hi there, > > We have been developing Linux XIA, a new network stack that > emphasizes evolvability and interoperability, for a couple of years, and > it has now reached a degree of maturity that allows others to experiment > with it. >From looking at your wiki, "netw

Re: [PATCH 1/5] WIP: Add syscall unlinkat_s (currently x86* only)

2015-02-03 Thread Alex Elsayed
Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 07:01:50PM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote: > >> Yeah, as I've already admitted in the bug, I never should have use >> the word secure, because everyone nowadays seems to end up in panic >> when reading that word. >> >> So, if I would be able to use sed on

Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add kdbus implementation

2014-10-30 Thread Alex Elsayed
Andy Lutomirski wrote: > There should be a number measured in, say, nanoseconds in here > somewhere. The actual extent of the speedup is unmeasurable here. > Also, it's worth reading at least one of Linus' many rants about > zero-copy. It's not an automatic win. It's well-understood that it's

Re: [PATCH 4/4] target: Add a user-passthrough backstore

2014-09-19 Thread Alex Elsayed
Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 14:43 -0700, Alex Elsayed wrote: >> Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: >> >> >> > So the idea of allowing the in-kernel CDB emulation to run after >> > user-space has returned unsupported opcode is problematic

Re: [PATCH v3 RESEND] zram: auto add new devices on demand

2014-08-08 Thread Alex Elsayed
Minchan Kim wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:58:31PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On (07/29/14 12:00), Minchan Kim wrote: >> > Hello Timofey, >> > >> > Why do you add new device unconditionally? >> > Maybe we need new konb on sysfs or ioctl for adding new device? >> > A

Re: Reading large amounts from /dev/urandom broken

2014-07-24 Thread Alex Elsayed
Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On Mi, 2014-07-23 at 11:14 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 04:52:21PM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote: >> > Dear developers, please check bugzilla ticket >> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80981 (not the initial >> > issue, but starting

Re: [RFC 1/2] target: Add documentation on the target userspace pass-through driver

2014-07-05 Thread Alex Elsayed
Reply inline, with a good bit of snipping done (posting via gmane, so quote/content ratio is an issue). Andy Grover wrote: > +These backstores cover the most common use cases, but not all. One new > +use case that other non-kernel target solutions, such as tgt, are able > +to support is using Gl

Re: Thoughts on credential switching

2014-03-28 Thread Alex Elsayed
Jeff Layton wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:25:35 -0700 > Jeff Layton wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:05:16 -0700 >> Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Jeff Layton >> > wrote: >> > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:23:24 -0700 >> > > Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> > > >> >

Re: [QUERY] lguest64

2013-08-01 Thread Alex Elsayed
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> UML, lguest and Xen were done before the x86 architecture supported >> hardware virtualization. > > [...] > >> but on KVM-enabled hardware KVM seems >> like the better option (and is indeed what libguestfs uses.) > > While we're still on th

Re: [ANNOUNCE] target-pending tree updated to v3.6-rc2

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Elsayed
not debugging > > 101998f6 tcm_vhost: Post-merge review changes requested by MST > > f0e0e9bb tcm_vhost: Fix incorrect IS_ERR() usage in > > vhost_scsi_map_iov_to_sgl > Whoops.. Missed one extra target/pscsi regression bug-fix reported > recently by Alex Elsayed (CC'ed) that has just been push