From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com,
hpa@zytor.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
jbeulich@novell.com, peterm@redhat.com, gang.wei@intel.com,
shane.wang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v4][PATCH 2/2] intel_txt: Intel(R) TXT and tboot kernel support
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:52:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33858.1245433922@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:05:14 +0200." <20090619150514.GE1389@ucw.cz>
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:05:14 +0200, Pavel Machek said:
> On Fri 2009-06-12 15:12:59, James Morris wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Joseph Cihula wrote:
> >
> > > Linux support for Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology.
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
> >
> > There have been no comments on this since you posted it, so we might
> > assume there are no further technical issues.
>
> I believe the code at best useless and at worst dangerous. We don't
> merge useless code to the kernel.
>
> What are non-evil uses of this code?
Yes, most of the uses contemplated for this are for evil DRM schemes. On the
other hand, the code is equally useful to help make sure that mo miscreant has
snuck evil DRM (or other evil code) in behind my back.
"Somebody has screwed with this kernel image, and you're not booting what you
thought you were booting."
Seems worth it to me.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-19 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 21:38 Joseph Cihula
2009-06-12 5:12 ` James Morris
2009-06-12 10:23 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-19 15:05 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-19 17:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2009-06-19 19:11 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-19 20:27 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-22 1:33 ` James Morris
2009-06-19 21:22 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-19 18:34 ` Chris Wright
2009-06-22 1:54 ` James Morris
2009-06-26 21:30 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-28 22:46 ` James Morris
2009-08-24 9:43 ` Pavel Machek
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