Hi, On 09/22/2013 06:14 PM, Hae-woo Park wrote: > > Thank you so much for quick reply. > > I think you are absolutely right for Debian Stable. > And I don't think I was right even in Debian Testing > because I do not know what is done in the trinity test. > I think I understand why the conservative approach is needed. > > I was merely curious about what makes the differences > between x32-specific security bugs and non-x32-specific ones. > I believe the x32 binary support is just an option not different from > the other kernel options; > and any kernel option increases the threatening level in security. > But we do not turned off all the kernel options; even though we all know > that bugs are everywhere. > I can totally agree with you if the reason why x32-option is turned off is > that it can't be built as a module, rarely used, or hard to test. > But if not, I just thought x32-specific feature can be tested in Sid or > Testing like the other features > because those stages aim to find out bugs. > > Anyhow I really appreciate that you inform me of the current situation > and the progress. > If you have any hyperlink to knowledge base about trinity test, please > let me know. ( I googled it for a while bug found nothing. ) I think Ben meant this one: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ Cheers, Balint > > Thank you. > > > > Regards, > Hae-woo Park > > > > > 2013/9/22 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk <mailto:ben@decadent.org.uk>> > > On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 21:32 +0900, Hae-woo Park wrote: > > > > AFAIK, there are many x32 packages in amd64 repository. > > > > However, they are unusable due to that the kernel packages turned off > > the related option. > > Actually I do not know what the trinity test is; however, > > IMHO, the option could be turned on for user tests, at least on > > Jessie. > > I don't think you understand my concern. If there is any security issue > specific to x32 syscalls then we make all the amd64 installations > vulnerable, not just those where the administrator actually wants to > support x32. > > > Is there any progress in this issue ? > > I think Matthias Klose was going to try running trinity on x32. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source > >
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