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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <rdenis@simphalempin.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Michael Stone <michael@laptop.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:14:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090112201435.GC23848@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901122147.57731.rdenis@simphalempin.com>

> Expanding the heap,

That's a problem agreed  Ok you can just always use very
bss arrays sized for the worst case.

> Getting timestamps. 

At least on 64bit that's done in ring 3 only with a vsyscall.

> Waiting on futexes, 
> catching signals, polling file descriptors. Seeking, doing vectorized I/O. 
> Cloning.

That all can be done by the frontend reading/feeding
data into the pipe. But it shouldn't directly access the user data
to be immune against attacks.

> Codecs don't like to read/write raw video through a pipe...

I don't think that's given. It would need some restructuring,
but I think the end result would be likely worth it.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07  5:48 RFC: Network privilege separation Michael Stone
2009-01-07  5:48 ` [PATCH] Security: Implement and document RLIMIT_NETWORK Michael Stone
2009-01-07 11:47   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-07 16:52     ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-01-07 17:48       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-07 20:54         ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-01-07 21:42           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-07 18:35     ` C. Scott Ananian
2009-01-07 19:02       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-07 19:39         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-07 21:07     ` Michael Stone
2009-01-07 21:59       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-08  0:56         ` Michael Stone
2009-01-08  4:27           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-08  1:22       ` James Morris
2009-01-08  3:34         ` Michael Stone
2009-01-07 21:10 ` RFC: Network privilege separation Andi Kleen
2009-01-08  2:31   ` Michael Stone
2009-01-08  3:10     ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-08  4:51       ` Michael Stone
2009-01-08  5:41         ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-08  7:05       ` Oliver Hartkopp
2009-01-08  7:52       ` david
2009-01-08 10:43     ` Alan Cox
2009-01-12 18:44       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-12 19:09         ` Bryan Donlan
2009-01-12 19:43         ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-12 19:47           ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-01-12 20:14             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-01-12 20:15               ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-01-12 20:27                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-12 20:39                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-12 20:30                   ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-01-12 20:55                     ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-12 20:47                       ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2009-01-12 21:50                         ` Andi Kleen
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2009-01-08 12:08 Herbert Xu
2009-01-08 12:10 Herbert Xu

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