From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philipp Reisner Subject: [PATCH] connector: Allow permission checking in the receiver callbacks Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:48:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1254235692-1631-1-git-send-email-philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Lars Ellenberg , Philipp Reisner To: Evgeniy Polyakov Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Various users of the connector should actually check if the sender's capabilities of a netlink/connector packet are actually sufficient for the operation they trigger. Up to now the connector framework did not allow the kernel side receiver to do so. This patch set does the groundwork. Philipp Reisner (4): connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_data connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback connector/dm: Fixed a compilation warning connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb() Documentation/connector/cn_test.c | 2 +- Documentation/connector/connector.txt | 8 ++++---- drivers/connector/cn_queue.c | 12 +++++++----- drivers/connector/connector.c | 22 ++++++++-------------- drivers/md/dm-log-userspace-transfer.c | 3 +-- drivers/staging/dst/dcore.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/pohmelfs/config.c | 2 +- drivers/video/uvesafb.c | 2 +- drivers/w1/w1_netlink.c | 2 +- include/linux/connector.h | 11 ++++------- 10 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)