From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:24:50 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091004102450.GB2569@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254487211-11810-1-git-send-email-philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:40:03PM +0200, Philipp Reisner (philipp.reisner@linbit.com) wrote:
> 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.
How expressive! :)
> 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.
I ack those changes either since they do not affect logic of the user.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-04 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-02 12:40 [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 1/8] connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 2/8] connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 3/8] connector/dm: Fixed a compilation warning Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 4/8] connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb() Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged processes Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 6/8] dst/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure dst Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 7/8] pohmelfs/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to configure pohmelfs Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 12:40 ` [PATCH 8/8] uvesafb/connector: Disallow unpliviged users to send netlink packets Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 16:40 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged processes Jonathan Brassow
2009-10-02 13:58 ` [PATCH 0/8] SECURITY ISSUE with connector Greg KH
2009-10-02 15:54 ` Philipp Reisner
2009-10-02 16:10 ` Greg KH
2009-10-02 16:57 ` David Miller
2009-10-02 16:21 ` Lars Ellenberg
2009-10-02 17:56 ` David Miller
2009-10-02 18:00 ` Greg KH
2009-10-02 18:05 ` David Miller
2009-10-02 18:15 ` Greg KH
2009-10-04 10:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2009-10-09 22:25 ` Greg KH
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