From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: zbr@ioremap.net
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
dm-devel@redhat.com, kaber@trash.net, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:38:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110303.173831.226757550.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110304012956.GA13573@ioremap.net>
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 04:29:56 +0300
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:37:46PM +0100, Lars Ellenberg (lars.ellenberg@linbit.com) wrote:
>> If so, then this change introduces the possibility for normal users to
>> send privileged commands to connector based subsystems, even if they
>> may not be able to bind() to suitable sockets to receive any replies.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> Yup, connector is very async at that place, but I wonder why the hell I
> ever made that decision. I believe we can replace it with pure sync call
> of the registered connector callback, since netlink is synchronous and
> no one has any problem with it.
Yes, please it would really help us with what we're trying to do here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4D6F6180.5030903@trash.net>
[not found] ` <20110303173230.GP4988@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
[not found] ` <20110303.105655.189705829.davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-03 20:15 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms Chris Wright
2011-03-03 21:39 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct David Miller
[not found] ` <20110303201522.GT4988-JyIX8gxvWYPr2PDY2+4mTGD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-03 22:37 ` [Drbd-dev] " Lars Ellenberg
2011-03-03 23:53 ` Chris Wright
2011-03-04 1:29 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2011-03-04 1:38 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-03-08 14:50 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms Patrick McHardy
2011-03-08 18:32 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct Evgeniy Polyakov
2011-03-08 18:54 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms Patrick McHardy
2011-03-17 15:43 ` [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct Evgeniy Polyakov
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