From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: socketcan@hartkopp.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
urs.thuermann@volkswagen.de, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
kaber@trash.net, jmorris@namei.org,
remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com, pekkas@netcore.fi, sri@us.ibm.com,
vladislav.yasevich@hp.com, tj@kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, joe@perches.com, shemminger@vyatta.com,
hadi@mojatatu.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, adobriyan@gmail.com,
jpirko@redhat.com, johannes.berg@intel.com,
daniel.lezcano@free.fr, xemul@openvz.org,
socketcan-core@lists.berlios.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:20:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289524801.5167.76.camel@dan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101111.171024.242132239.davem@davemloft.net>
> This will print zero once a socket enters various closing states or
> similar, since the sk->sk_socket is released and turns NULL.
>
> Thus making the debugging information next to useless.
>
> I'm still largely against these changes, and will not apply them
> to my tree.
Would you care to offer any suggestions that would both solve the
problem and be acceptable to you?
If not, then you have committed to leaving a permanent easy target for
exploits. Please think carefully about this.
-Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-12 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-12 1:07 [PATCH 4/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/ Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-12 1:10 ` David Miller
2010-11-12 1:20 ` Dan Rosenberg [this message]
2010-11-12 2:02 ` David Miller
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2010-11-12 2:15 Dan Rosenberg
[not found] ` <2129857903-1289528127-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1506931048--JnVBb1XAImjjL2gL5RxOEzYg3SYOavFBmZ6FRVpaDsI@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-12 2:29 ` David Miller
2010-11-12 2:34 ` Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-12 2:49 ` David Miller
2010-11-12 2:51 ` Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-12 2:59 ` David Miller
2010-11-12 7:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 12:37 ` Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-12 16:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-12 17:24 ` Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-12 18:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-12 20:18 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-12 20:37 ` David Miller
2010-11-12 22:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-12 22:46 ` David Miller
[not found] <1289673008.3090.350.camel@Dan>
2010-11-13 18:42 ` Dan Rosenberg
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