From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20091002.105659.102583702.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1254487211-11810-1-git-send-email-philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1254487211-11810-1-git-send-email-philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: philipp.reisner@linbit.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, greg@kroah.com, dm-devel@redhat.com, zbr@ioremap.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net From: Philipp Reisner Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:40:03 +0200 > Affected: All code that uses connector, in kernel and out of mainline > > The connector, as it is today, does not allow the in kernel receiving > parts to do any checks on privileges of a message's sender. > > I know, there are not many out there that like connector, but as > long as it is in the kernel, we have to fix the security issues it has! > > Please either drop connector, or someone who feels a bit responsible > and has our beloved dictator's blessing, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take > this into your tree, and send the pull request to Linus. > > Patches 1 to 4 are already Acked-by Evgeny, the connector's maintainer. > Patches 5 to 7 are the obvious fixes to the connector user's code. > > For convenience these patches are also available as git tree: > git://git.drbd.org/linux-2.6-drbd.git connector-fix All applied to net-2.6, I'll push this out to Linus later today.