From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: w@1wt.eu
Cc: ak@suse.de, solar@openwall.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:46:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060820.124605.71096208.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060820101528.GE602@1wt.eu>
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:15:28 +0200
> Others will consider it totally useless because it does not cover
> all cases, but I think it is against the general principle of
> precaution we try to apply in security.
Reading in a value from userspace twice for questionable
"security" is just bogus.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-20 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-19 23:05 [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking Solar Designer
2006-08-19 23:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 0:05 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-20 0:43 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 19:44 ` David Miller
2006-08-20 20:35 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 21:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-21 12:09 ` Eugene Teo
2006-08-20 8:34 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-20 10:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 10:50 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-08-20 19:46 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-08-20 16:16 ` Solar Designer
2006-08-20 16:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-20 19:47 ` David Miller
2006-08-20 18:38 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-20 19:45 ` Solar Designer
2006-08-20 19:45 ` David Miller
2006-08-20 18:15 ` Alan Cox
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