From: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@padovan.org>
To: "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" <linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Bluetooth: Add blacklist support for incoming connections
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 05:48:01 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100519084715.GA11110@vigoh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100519082205.GA18772@jh-x301>
Hi Johan,
* Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@nokia.com> [2010-05-19 10:22:05 +0200]:
> Hi Gustavo,
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010, Gustavo F. Padovan wrote:
> > > In some circumstances it could be desirable to reject incoming
> > > connections on the baseband level. This patch adds this feature through
> > > two new ioctl's: HCIBLOCKADDR and HCIUNBLOCKADDR. Both take a simple
> > > Bluetooth address as a parameter. BDADDR_ANY can be used with
> > > HCIUNBLOCKADDR to remove all devices from the blacklist.
> >
> > Which circumstances?
>
> Whenever you have a badly behaving remote device that keeps on trying to
> connect to you (e.g. an OPP spambot or someone trying to actively DoS
> you). I gave some more details in my reply to Jaikumar a few days ago on
> this mailing list.
Nice. Patch looks ok to me by the way. ;)
--
Gustavo F. Padovan
http://padovan.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-19 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-18 11:20 [PATCH v3] Bluetooth: Add blacklist support for incoming connections johan.hedberg
2010-05-19 8:10 ` Gustavo F. Padovan
2010-05-19 8:22 ` Johan Hedberg
2010-05-19 8:48 ` Gustavo F. Padovan [this message]
2010-05-19 13:55 ` Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2010-05-19 14:05 ` Johan Hedberg
2010-05-19 14:10 ` Johan Hedberg
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