removing debugfs

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Tue Jan 25 01:48:13 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 14:13 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have yet another unpopular request: I want to remove debugfs completely
> from the built kernels. Upstream continues to put dangerous things in it,
> and I want to avoid the problems completely.
[...]

I agree that it should not be mounted by default, or relied on by any
user-space packages.  However, I don't see the need to disable it
altogether.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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