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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:50:47 +0000
Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms
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To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com

Am 04.03.2011 02:29, schrieb Evgeniy Polyakov:
> 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.
> 

Are you going to do this or do you want me to take care of it?