From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: about phonet pipe controller
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:08:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435035.dDgLtNNFnF@leon.remlab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81C3A93C17462B4BBD7E272753C105791EAACAEA43@EXDCVYMBSTM005.EQ1STM.local>
Le Mercredi 12 Octobre 2011 12:58:08 ext Hemant-vilas RAMDASI a écrit :
> Yes, I agree that build-time option is not required..But what are those
> corner cases?
This is old stuff. I don't remember the details, nor did I investigate the
whole thing. But the code seemed to assume that userspace are fully trusted,
the remote Phonet nodes also. That does not work.
Protocol-level race conditions, API level race conditions, crashed remote
peers, crashing user space processes, invalid API use, etc. All that needs to
be dealt with safely. This is kernel code!
--
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-12 7:25 about phonet pipe controller Hemant-vilas RAMDASI
2011-10-12 7:58 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2011-10-12 10:58 ` Hemant-vilas RAMDASI
2011-10-12 11:08 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont [this message]
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