From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: dgk@research.att.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
gsf@research.att.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: kernel bug in socketpair()
Date: 23 Jul 2003 17:13:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058976818.5520.91.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030723083621.26429e51.davem@redhat.com>
On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 16:36, David S. Miller wrote:
> > This is intentional - sockets do not have an "open" operation currently.
>
> Sure, but we've known this for a long time.
>
> And because we knew, we decided not to add an "open"
> method to sockets. The reason, as I remember it, was
> security.
>
> Was it not?
Mostly if I remember rightly that if you don't do the check because you have
no open operation to create a new instance you crash the box. HPA did have
some sensible ideas about how to do "open" on AF_UNIX sockets but for the
others its really unclear quite what "open" means
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-23 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-23 13:32 kernel bug in socketpair() David Korn
2003-07-23 14:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 14:20 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 15:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 16:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-23 14:28 David Korn
2003-07-23 14:46 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 16:56 ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 17:00 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 17:24 ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 17:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 18:14 ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 18:23 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 18:54 ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 19:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 19:11 ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 19:14 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 19:29 ` Glenn Fowler
2003-07-23 19:56 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 22:24 ` jw schultz
2003-07-23 19:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:41 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-07-23 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 23:27 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
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