On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:50:10 -0500 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 9:41 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I agree with this assessment. We shouldn't use config.gz as precedence > > for this solution. config.gz should have been in debugfs to begin with, > > but I don't believe debugfs was around when config.gz was introduced. > > (Don't have time to look into the history of the two). > > I don't agree with this: /proc/config.gz is used by a lot of tools > that do sanity-check of running systems. This isn't _debugging_... > it's verifying correct kernel builds. It's a fancy version of checking > /proc/version. > Then we should perhaps make a new file system call tarballs ;-) /sys/kernel/tarballs/ and place everything there. That way it removes it from /proc (which is the worse place for that) and also makes it something other than debug. That's what I did for tracefs. -- Steve
