From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com>,
"security@kernel.org" <security@kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:51:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxybf=ya2RE5nzf10Km+JZ3=HqXGVCHYcteW2EVAUww+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ioow6pt6.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
> I have not seen consensus that what Zebra is doing makes sense to
> support.
Eric, stop right there.
There is no "sensible to support". There is only "reality".
The thing that makes "reality" be "reality" is that it exists whether
you like it or not, or whether you believe in it or not.
We don't break applications. Whether you like them or not is
completely immaterial.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-04-22 21:13 ` [PATCH 0/6]: Preventing abuse when passing file descriptors Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-22 21:14 ` [PATCH 1/6] netlink: Rename netlink_capable netlink_allowed Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-22 21:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] net: Move the permission check in sock_diag_put_filterinfo to packet_diag_dump Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-22 21:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] net: Fix ns_capable check in packet_diag_dump Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-22 21:16 ` [PATCH 4/6] net: Add variants of capable for use on on sockets Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-22 21:16 ` [PATCH 5/6] net: Add variants of capable for use on netlink messages Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-22 21:17 ` [PATCH 6/6] net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of " Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-23 19:32 ` [PATCH 0/6]: Preventing abuse when passing file descriptors David Miller
2014-04-23 21:24 ` [PATCH 0/5]: " Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-23 21:25 ` [PATCH 1/5] netlink: Rename netlink_capable netlink_allowed Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-23 21:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] net: Move the permission check in sock_diag_put_filterinfo to packet_diag_dump Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-23 21:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] net: Add variants of capable for use on on sockets Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-23 21:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] net: Add variants of capable for use on netlink messages Eric W. Biederman
2014-04-23 21:29 ` [PATCH 5/5] net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of " Eric W. Biederman
2014-05-07 22:18 ` Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2014-05-07 22:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-07 22:52 ` David Miller
2014-05-07 23:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-07 23:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-07 23:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-22 15:05 ` Jiri Benc
2014-05-23 23:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-05-23 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-05-24 22:34 ` David Miller
2014-05-25 5:38 ` [RFC][PATCH] netlink: Only check file credentials for implicit destinations Eric W. Biederman
2014-05-25 16:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-25 23:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-05-26 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-26 5:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/1] netlink: Use the credential at the time the destination address was set Eric W. Biederman
2014-05-26 17:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-27 4:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-05-26 13:39 ` [RFC][PATCH] netlink: Only check file credentials for implicit destinations Willy Tarreau
2014-05-26 8:38 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-05-25 5:45 ` [PATCH 5/5] net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages Eric W. Biederman
2014-05-25 16:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-08 21:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-05-08 21:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
[not found] ` <CA+55aFzOHZcw2o6Cq6rSddSBDZvhgzYToBruak9SLCHxx-fA3Q@mail.gmail.com>
2014-05-08 21:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-08 22:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-05-08 21:54 ` David Miller
2014-05-07 23:45 ` David Miller
2014-05-08 21:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-05-08 21:52 ` David Miller
2014-05-08 21:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-24 17:45 ` [PATCH 0/5]: Preventing abuse when passing file descriptors David Miller
2014-06-13 1:31 [PATCH 0/5] Backport to 3.10.y for fix CVE-2014-0181 Xiangyu Lu
2014-06-13 1:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages Xiangyu Lu
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