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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

  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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