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.
next prev parent 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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