From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: openib-general@openib.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET] socket.c: zero socket addresses before use.
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:13:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050921.001321.78997430.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hdcfhd40.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:18:23 -0600
> Dave I don't know if this is part of what you want but
> zeroing the socket address buffer before use seem to be implied
> by what you were asking for. So here is an additional patch
> to implement that.
>
> This is a paranoid precaution to guard against accidental
> information leaks to user space or other consumers/producers
> may fail to properly fail to set or read the hardware
> address length. af_packet over ethernet has had at least
> has one small but in this respect.
I think this patch might be a bit overkill, but thanks for cooking it
up. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise though :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-21 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-11 18:48 [PATCH] sockaddr_ll change for IPoIB interface Hal Rosenstock
2005-08-11 19:49 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-10 17:25 ` [PATCH] af_packet: Allow for > 8 byte hardware addresses Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-12 21:13 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-12 22:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-12 22:45 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-20 17:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-21 7:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-20 17:18 ` [PATCH] [NET] socket.c: zero socket addresses before use Eric W. Biederman
2005-09-21 7:13 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-09-21 13:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
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