From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johill@sipsolutions.net,
reinette.chatre@intel.com, Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlagn: Change the TPT calculations sanity-check to WARN_ON
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 17:01:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272920504.4907.5.camel@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimf_aZyUSZInOzUPZ8KRR6oDs3Re4pSGGn541fM@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 22:48 +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> One exception I can think of: major misconfiguration can cause a
> wireless device to DMA data into sensitive memory locations. When
> evidence of this is detected, it might make sense to BUG_ON()
> (especially if the bogus DMA operations can be exploited remotely to
> overwrite arbitrary memory addresses). However, in that case, the
> attacker may have already overwritten panic() with malicious code as
> well, so even this case doesn't hold.
And then there is a case when encryption fails and there is a risk of
transmitting data without encryption or accepting data without
verification.
But generally, I agree.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-03 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-03 17:25 [PATCH] iwlagn: Change the TPT calculations sanity-check to WARN_ON John W. Linville
2010-05-03 17:48 ` reinette chatre
2010-05-03 17:55 ` [PATCH] iwlwifi: recalculate average tpt if not current reinette chatre
2010-05-06 16:11 ` reinette chatre
2010-05-06 18:22 ` John W. Linville
2010-05-06 18:50 ` reinette chatre
2010-05-03 20:29 ` [PATCH] iwlagn: Change the TPT calculations sanity-check to WARN_ON Kalle Valo
2010-05-03 20:48 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-05-03 21:01 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2010-05-03 21:10 ` Adel Gadllah
2010-05-03 21:20 ` Gábor Stefanik
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