Re: Sourceware mitigating and preventing the next xz-backdoor

Jeff Law <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha,gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 4/3/24 8:04 AM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> Florian> Everyone still pushes their own patches, and there are no
> Florian> technical countermeasures in place to ensure that the pushed version is
> Florian> the reviewed version.
> 
> This is a problem for gdb as well.
> 
> Probably we should switch to some kind of pull-request model, where
> patches can only be landed via the UI, after sufficient review; and
> where all generated files are regenerated by the robot before checkin.
> (Or alternatively some CI runs and rejects patches where they don't
> match.)
I've very much prefer to move to a pull-request model.

jeff
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