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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Andrei Warkentin <andrey.warkentin@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NetKGDB v3
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:04:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120227160450.022784bb@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330313411-845-1-git-send-email-andrey.warkentin@gmail.com>

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:30:08 -0500
Andrei Warkentin <andrey.warkentin@gmail.com> wrote:

> netkgdb is designed to accept connections
> from any hosts, i.e. it is not necessary to specify these ahead
> of time. This makes it that much more useful in a "this host crashed
> and a I want a developer to take a look at it" scenario, common to
> large scale test/QA farms and automated testing harnesses.

And opens a security hole so wide that no production network
or distro should ever enable it!

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1330137851-4716-1-git-send-email-andrey.warkentin@gmail.com>
2012-02-27  2:05 ` NetKGDB support v2 Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27  2:05   ` [PATCHv2 1/2] NETPOLL: Extend rx_hook support Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27  2:05   ` [PATCHv2 2/2] NETKGDB: Ethernet/UDP/IP KDB transport Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27  3:30 ` NetKGDB v3 Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27  3:30   ` [PATCHv3 1/3] NETPOLL: Extend rx_hook support Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27 23:17     ` Jason Wessel
2012-02-27 23:33       ` Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-28 16:06         ` Jason Wessel
2012-02-28 17:43           ` Andrei Warkentin
2012-03-01 21:04             ` Andrei Warkentin
2012-03-01 22:24               ` Jason Wessel
2012-03-01 23:41                 ` Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27  3:30   ` [PATCHv3 2/3] NETKGDB: Ethernet/UDP/IP KDB transport Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27  5:29     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-27  5:36       ` Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27  3:30   ` [PATCHv3 3/3] KGDB: Allow registering multiple I/O ops Andrei Warkentin
2012-02-27  4:38   ` NetKGDB v3 David Miller
2012-02-27  4:43     ` Andrei E. Warkentin
2012-02-28  0:04   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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