From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: solar@openwall.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, peak@argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz,
kees.cook@canonical.com, dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com,
eugene@redhat.com, nelhage@ksplice.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:22:10 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110413112210.GA6948@albatros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110412.142534.183049889.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 14:25 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> I have no fundamental objections to this change and I'll be happy to
> apply it after we iron out a few details.
Great!
> First, please get rid of the debug option, we have pr_debug() which can
> be dynamically turned on and off at run time these days.
OK.
> Second, if this is a bonafide core facility we'd like everyone to use,
> let's make it so. I want it so that every ping binary can expect this
> facility to be there if the kernel is new enough.
>
> So let's get rid of the config option.
OK.
> Finally, longer term, I'd really like to see ipv6 support for this
> feature as well.
Definitely.
For ICMPv6 we should recognize what message types are OK to send by
non-root users and what types are privileged. We just didn't do this
yet.
Thank you for the review,
--
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-13 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-09 10:15 [PATCH] net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-04-12 5:06 ` Solar Designer
2011-04-12 21:25 ` David Miller
2011-04-13 11:22 ` Vasiliy Kulikov [this message]
2011-05-05 11:32 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-05-10 18:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-05-10 19:15 ` David Miller
2011-05-10 19:45 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-05-13 20:01 ` [PATCH v3] " Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-05-13 20:08 ` David Miller
2011-05-13 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2011-05-13 22:22 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ipv4: add ping_group_range documentation Eric Dumazet
2011-05-15 8:18 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ping: dont call udp_ioctl() Eric Dumazet
2011-05-15 21:30 ` Solar Designer
2011-05-15 21:44 ` David Miller
2011-05-16 7:26 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] " Eric Dumazet
2011-05-16 12:48 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-05-16 15:50 ` David Miller
2011-04-13 10:29 ` [PATCH] net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-13 11:32 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-04-14 9:16 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-14 1:53 ` Simon Horman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-18 18:00 Vasiliy Kulikov
2011-03-18 19:47 ` David Miller
2011-03-18 19:59 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
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