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From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kptr_restrict for hiding kernel pointers from unprivileged users
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:51:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291895472.2965.4.camel@Dan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291865039.2795.46.camel@edumazet-laptop>


> 
> Thanks for not giving credits to people suggesting this idea to you
> (Thomas if I remember well), and not Ccing netdev where original
> discussion took place. 
> 

I am happy to credit Thomas, even though he is far from the first person
to have suggested this approach to me.  Thanks for the suggestion.

> 
> So caller can not block BH ?
> 
> This seems wrong to me, please consider :
> 
> normal process context :
> 
> spin_lock_bh() ...
> 
> for (...)  
> 	{xxx}printf( ...   "%pK"   ...)
> 
> spin_unlock_bh();
> 

I will think about this and address it.

-Dan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-09 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1291863926.2965.1.camel@Dan>
2010-12-09  3:23 ` [PATCH] kptr_restrict for hiding kernel pointers from unprivileged users Eric Dumazet
2010-12-09  3:26   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-09 11:51   ` Dan Rosenberg [this message]
2010-12-09 12:46     ` Dan Rosenberg
2010-12-09 13:30       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-10  2:45         ` Dan Rosenberg
2010-12-10 16:05   ` Peter Zijlstra

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