From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: philipp.reisner@linbit.com
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
dm-devel@redhat.com, zbr@ioremap.net,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:57:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091002.095724.12562070.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910021754.12940.philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:54:12 +0200
> Think of the connector as a layer on top of netlink that allows more
> than a hard coded number of subsystems to use netlink.
There are no such limits in netlink, we have 'genetlink' which allows
an arbitrary number of subsystems to use netlink.
What connector provides over netlink/genetlink is something different
altogether.
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: philipp.reisner@linbit.com
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, greg@kroah.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, zbr@ioremap.net,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:57:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091002.095724.12562070.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910021754.12940.philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:54:12 +0200
> Think of the connector as a layer on top of netlink that allows more
> than a hard coded number of subsystems to use netlink.
There are no such limits in netlink, we have 'genetlink' which allows
an arbitrary number of subsystems to use netlink.
What connector provides over netlink/genetlink is something different
altogether.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-02 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-02 12:40 [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 1/8] connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 2/8] connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 3/8] connector/dm: Fixed a compilation warning Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 4/8] connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb() Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged processes Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 6/8] dst/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure dst Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 7/8] pohmelfs/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure pohmelfs Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 8/8] uvesafb/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to send netlink packets Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 16:40 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged processes Jonathan Brassow
2009-10-02 13:58 ` [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector Greg KH
2009-10-02 15:54 ` Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 15:54 ` Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 16:10 ` Greg KH
2009-10-02 16:10 ` Greg KH
2009-10-02 16:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-02 16:57 ` David Miller
2009-10-02 16:21 ` Lars Ellenberg
2009-10-02 16:21 ` Lars Ellenberg
2009-10-02 17:56 ` David Miller
2009-10-02 18:00 ` Greg KH
2009-10-02 18:05 ` David Miller
2009-10-02 18:05 ` David Miller
2009-10-02 18:15 ` Greg KH
2009-10-04 10:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-10-04 10:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-10-09 22:25 ` Greg KH
2009-10-09 22:25 ` Greg KH
2009-10-13 9:28 ` [PATCH 0/7] SECURITY ISSUE with connector for 2.6.31.y Philipp Reisner
2009-10-13 9:28 ` [PATCH 1/7] connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data Philipp Reisner
2009-10-13 9:28 ` [PATCH 2/7] connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback Philipp Reisner
2009-10-13 9:28 ` [PATCH 3/7] connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb() Philipp Reisner
2009-10-13 9:28 ` [PATCH 4/7] dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged processes Philipp Reisner
2009-10-13 9:28 ` [PATCH 5/7] dst/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure dst Philipp Reisner
2009-10-13 9:28 ` [PATCH 6/7] pohmelfs/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure pohmelfs Philipp Reisner
2009-10-13 9:28 ` [PATCH 7/7] uvesafb/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to send netlink packets Philipp Reisner
2009-10-13 16:25 ` [PATCH 0/7] SECURITY ISSUE with connector for 2.6.31.y Serge E. Hallyn
2009-10-15 18:29 ` Greg KH
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