From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
ak@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] mISDN: misc timerdev fixes
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:49:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080923114927.GA2506@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080923063407.GB23815@pingi.kke.suse.de>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:34:07AM +0200, Karsten Keil wrote:
> No really needed, normally the timers deleted long time before running out
> or never so it should never see such a race, maybe if the application is
> aborted and cleanup all timers this could happen but also this should be no
> normal case, since usually you do not kill a PBX if any connections are
> active.
> Yes it could be used to do some deny on service kind of attack, so it should
> be fixed at all.
All these timers are completely user controller and non-prviliegued. So
this _is_ a serious issue. In fact I think we should just rip out this
whole module, it's a really useless duplicate timer interface.
Gotta love merging unreviewed code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 21:51 [patch 4/4] mISDN: misc timerdev fixes akpm
2008-09-23 2:18 ` David Miller
2008-09-23 2:27 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-23 6:34 ` Karsten Keil
2008-09-23 11:49 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-09-23 10:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-23 11:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-23 11:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-23 12:00 ` Karsten Keil
2008-09-23 17:31 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-23 14:14 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-23 14:17 ` [patch 4/4] mISDN: misc timerdev fixes II Andi Kleen
2008-09-23 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-23 16:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-23 16:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-12 11:05 ` [patch 4/4] mISDN: misc timerdev fixes Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-13 2:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-13 2:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-13 4:00 ` David Miller
2008-10-13 11:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-13 18:47 ` David Miller
2008-09-23 14:13 ` Andi Kleen
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