On 11/08/2017 05:57 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:We can postpone enabling UMIP by default by a year or so. By this time, new Wine will be on majority of users' machines.So you are suggesting we run unnecessarily insecure, only in order to not do the emulation that we already have the code for and that the patch implements?
We ran insecure in this way for ~25 years.
Why?
To avoid having to maintain more obscure, rarely executed code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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