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From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@volkswagen.de>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@netcore.fi>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@mojatatu.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>,
	Pavel Eme
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:24:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289525049.5167.82.camel@dan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101112012039.GB4683@canuck.infradead.org>


> 
> If we really have to do this. At least don't duplicate all this code. Do
> the check in the printf argument:
> 
> 	seq_printf(seq, "%4d: %08X:%04X %08X:%04X"
> 		...
> 		capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) ? sp : 0,
> 
> I would even move the decision whether to expose kernel addresses or not
> to a function so we can change behavior in one place.

I wrote it this way because the format specifier must also be changed,
or the %p output will print "(null)", which cannot be parsed by
userspace programs expecting "(nil)" or 0.  I could include another
check inside the format specifier, but that seemed pretty ugly.  But
then again, it's ugly either way.

-Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12  1:07 [PATCH 3/10] Fix leaking of kernel heap addresses in net/ Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-12  1:20 ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-12  1:24   ` Dan Rosenberg [this message]
2010-11-12  1:44     ` Thomas Graf
2010-11-12 15:11 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-12 15:14   ` Dan Rosenberg

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