Bring the patch to upstream

[kosli]

Dear Maxim

Have you tried to bring this patch to the upstream linux kernel?
Do you know if any of the "forensic distributions" uses it?

Kind regards
KoSli

[msuhanov]

Hello.

Have you tried to bring this patch to the upstream linux kernel?

No.

Do you know if any of the "forensic distributions" uses it?

Grml (2014.11) and DEFT Zero (RC1).

[kosli]

thanks for your feedback. would be nice to see it in upstream, would help the whole community :-)

just as reference: Grml is Grml-Forensic https://grml-forensic.org/ (as there is another live distri called https://grml.org/ )

[msuhanov]

just as reference: Grml is Grml-Forensic https://grml-forensic.org/ (as there is another live distri called https://grml.org/ )

http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-kernel.git;a=blob;f=linux-3/debian/patches/grml/ext4-readonly.patch

[kosli]

ups sorry, my mistake :-(

[vitaly-kamluk]

Seems like a very useful patch. Why is it not part of upstream yet?

[klango]

Hi

Hello.

Have you tried to bring this patch to the upstream linux kernel?

No.

Do you know if any of the "forensic distributions" uses it?

Grml (2014.11) and DEFT Zero (RC1).

@ msuhanov do you know whether Sumuri Paladin or Caine Forensic Distro have their kernels patched?

[msuhanov]

CAINE:

No. It marks block devices as read-only, but this mode isn't enforced with a kernel patch.

PALADIN:

It includes a modified version of my patch (they never included the original patch, even old versions of PALADIN have a different message string, while the logic is the same). However, the distribution uses its own userspace scripts (and they fail sometimes).

Also, at least once the patch was silently removed and then returned (without a change log entry).

[klango]

CAINE:

No. It marks block devices as read-only, but this mode isn't enforced with a kernel patch.

PALADIN:

It includes a modified version of my patch (they never included the original patch, even old versions of PALADIN have a different message string, while the logic is the same). However, the distribution uses its own userspace scripts (and they fail sometimes).

Also, at least once the patch was silently removed and then returned (without a change log entry).

Thanks. I actually wrote the Paladin dev team and I will post their reply here as soon as I get one.
Best,

[q2dg]

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