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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	Dirk Herrendoerfer <d.herrendoerfer@de.ibm.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Vivek Kashyap <vivk@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:15:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005261815.36512.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFB3363EDA.945755DA-ON8525772F.0057CBD1-8525772F.00589D2B@us.ibm.com>

On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Stefan Berger wrote:
> I can start my dummy netlink 'server' twice and have two recipients of the 
> libvirt 
> message and thus two servers can (maliciously) respond. Well, netlink 
> doesn't
> seem to be as 'directed' as unixio. We could run the netlink type of 
> messages

libvirt can still check if the sender pid of the response is what it
thinks it should be.

	Arnd

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-26 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26  3:19 [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line Scott Feldman
2010-05-26 12:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-26 14:49   ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-27  7:00     ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]   ` <OFCF88A167.122DD206-ON8525772F.00470999-8525772F.0047F4A5@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-26 15:56     ` Chris Wright
     [not found]       ` <OFB3363EDA.945755DA-ON8525772F.0057CBD1-8525772F.00589D2B@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-26 16:15         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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