FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-13:05.nfsserver

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 04:41:03PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 03:15 PM 4/30/2013, Glen Barber wrote:
> 
> >Let's start from the beginning.  What is the name of your custom kernel?
> 
> The file name of the compiled kernel? The file name of the configuration file?
> Or the identification string within the kernel?
> 

Yes.  (All of them.)

> The file name is, of course, /boot/kernel/kernel. It's built without
> modules, so
> it's the only file in the directory /boot/kernel.
> 
> The configuration file is at /sys/amd64/conf/GATEWAY.
> 
> The identification string within the kernel is GATEWAY.
> 
> I am not sure what you're driving at here, though, so please explain.
> 

What I was getting at is seeing if you had a custom kernel called
GENERIC, despite the vast amounts of documentation noting that GENERIC
should _not_ be modified to customize the kernel.

So, since I know you're not new to FreeBSD, if you feel there is a bug
somewhere, please file a PR.  I disagree that there is a problem,
however, since users building a custom kernel should _not_ use
freebsd-update(8) for kernel upgrades.

Glen

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