Re: Sourceware mitigating and preventing the next xz-backdoor

Jeff Law via Gdb
2024-04-03T14:43:16Z

On 4/3/24 8:04 AM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> 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