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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	robert.olsson@its.uu.se, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, eugene@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Remove a dangerous debug print.
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:41:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288208499.2658.19.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101027192808.GP16803@ksplice.com>

Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 à 15:28 -0400, Nelson Elhage a écrit :
> How would you feel about limiting the debug print to at most, say, 512 or 1024
> bytes? Even if it's only accessible to root by default, I don't a userspace
> program should be able to accidentally corrupt the kernel stack by writing too
> many bytes to a file in /proc.

Arent /proc writes limited to PAGE_SIZE anyway ?

On x86 at least, you cannot corrupt kernel stack, since its bigger than
PAGE_SIZE.

I agree pktgen code is a bit ugly and needs a cleanup, but who
cares ? :)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-27 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-27 19:13 [PATCH] pktgen: Remove a dangerous debug print Nelson Elhage
2010-10-27 19:21 ` David Miller
2010-10-27 19:28   ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-27 19:30     ` David Miller
2010-10-27 19:41     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-10-27 19:49       ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-27 20:38 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-27 22:12 ` [patch] fix stack overflow in pktgen_if_write() Dan Carpenter
2010-10-27 22:40   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-27 22:43   ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2010-10-27 23:06     ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-28  6:05       ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28  6:05       ` [patch v3] " Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28 15:22         ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-28 16:28           ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28 16:30             ` Nelson Elhage
2010-10-28 23:11         ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-01  3:47           ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-28 15:20 ` [PATCH] pktgen: Limit how much data we copy onto the stack Nelson Elhage
2010-10-28 18:32   ` David Miller

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